I have mentioned before the superb John Mauldin free economic newsletters. Sign up, if only to read his latest masterpiece which praises the European Central bank for trying to stop the European Union falling into a very deep abyss. What’s so good about John’s work is that it combines professional […]
Iain Dale has stopped blogging in favour of his LBC and publishing life. Gulp. Every month his site steered some new readers to this one. That will dry up. I must say that whereas he had far too little to say about European issues for my own taste, what I […]
Update Welcome Browser readers A kind reader sent this comment: … while following the Holbrooke trail on your site I stumbled upon MARS, VENUS AND EXTREMISM … imho a brilliant disentangling of issues as alive today as when you gave the address. Should be framed This prompted me to re-read it – it’s a speech […]
A kind reader has sent me the text of the FCO’s Diplomatic Excellence: Our Reform Agenda for the FCO. I’ll read it closely when heading for Brussels for another round of Speechmaking/Speechwriting training for European diplomats. One odd thing – the version put out on the FCO’s staff website is […]
I try to market myself as a public speaker and speech-writer. But I can’t dream of riches like this from mere oratory: Mr Miliband records that he received a “payment of £25,000 for lecture at Sir Bani Yas Forum on Future of Middle East, Abu Dhabi”. … His travel and […]
A good general rule is that any organisation starting to talk about ‘excellence’ has a serious mediocrity problem. Excellent people and organisations don’t need to worry about excellence. They just get on with delivering it. Alas the FCO has launched a new scheme intended to help its staff claw their way […]
Is England not corrupt enough to survive? Straight dealing in almost any international forum these days is utterly non-existant, says Simon Heffer Simon Heffer regularly gets furious with his sub-editors’ illiteracy* at the Telegraph. He can have another whack at them now. Thank goodness that Crawf Minor is battling on […]
A generous link to this site from Tim Montgomerie at Conservative Home was posted while I was sunning myself in Mauritius. Tomorrow, the world.
Just to note that, as the end of the year looms, I can report that whereas in 2009 some 15,000 visitors here spent from 30 minutes to an hour or more reading deeper into the site, this year that number has jumped to over 25,000 people. By far the largest […]
Developing the theme of correct punctuation, reader jdmyeepa steers us to this superb essay about the Philosophy of Punctuation by Paul Robinson, who used to keep goal for Tottenham (and alas England) but then became a prominent American intellectual. Or maybe it’s two separate P Robinsons. Whatever. Anyway, this deft […]
