This is the relaxing blog of Michael Dembinski, musing on life from the vantage-point of an intriguing Warsaw suburb. Here is a clever idea he’s had: to find photographs from contemporary Poland somehow suggesting life under communism, as if nothing has changed. And his blogroll led me to Jacek Koba, […]
I know, I know. Egypt is a big deal so I need to share my thoughts with you on it. But even though it’s only February 2011 we already have the winner for the Article of the Decade. It’s this one, by Clark Whelton, former speechwriter for New York City […]
It turns out that there is a lively market for advice and training on the subtle arts of Diplomatic Protocol and Etiquette. Why? Because these days many organisations (including official international organisations among eg the UN family as well as NGOs and large corporations) send people on postings in far-flung […]
This isn’t first century BC Egypt, when having an attractive leader might theoretically provide some kind of geo-political advantage vis a vis our standing with the Romans. I don’t want to see a drawing of the former Governor of Alaska in what appears to be a leather bustier and garters… […]
You may have missed this fascinating blog entry by Jim Harvey of Allcow Communications, so here it is: I’m not easily impressed, and I’ve often found Foreign Office types to be snooty and dismissive of those of us who work in the ‘Del Boy’ world of sales and marketing, though […]
New world records for drivel and shameful dishonest nonsense have been set following the Tucson shootings. As far as I can see, the only thing President Obama wants to ‘heal’ is his own dismal ratings, and his speech to some extent may have done that – for a while. But the […]
The Browser asks Dr Michael Nicholson to share five books about Solzhenitsyn. Interesting, but then there’s this clanger: … it’s a good example of the confusion that has been sewn by the sequence of publication of Solzhenitsyn’s work in the West. Sorry to bother you. Back to the packing boxes.
Sorry, I was distracted from packing to spot this strange headline on the BBC web-page: US ‘revokes Venezuela envoy visa’ Why have they put most of that in inverted commas, as if it’s not true or somehow qualified or in doubt? The BBC’s own article on the subject reports a State […]
Nasty public mood growing in Russia? Who cares? It’s the FT’s strange editing which catches the eye: Russian ultra-nationalism, however, is a phenomenon created not without the Kremlin’s help, and observers argue that Mr Putin’s Kremlin has used nationalism as a force for political consolidation during his decade in power. […]
Inspired by the fine Five Books series partnered by the Browser, I have turned my own hand over at Business & Politics to analysing five classic children’s books which teach vital messages of economics. Such as Billy Bunter: It all ends badly for Bunter, of course, with a drastic caning […]
