Click on to the B92 wesbite (leading independent news outlet in Belgrade). It shows a page in Serbian but using the Latin script. My Google Translator button helpfully asks if you would like it translated – "Always translate Croatian". It does offer an option to translate this ‘Croatian’ into Serbian, […]
I have to say it. Frankly. I am disappointed in you, my readers. I deliberately do not clutter up this website with Internet advertising and other distracting marketing gimmicks. I wish to offer you a calm and agreeable intellectual experience. Nonetheless, in return I hope that you take seriously my […]
In case you don’t have quite enough to read, check out my gentle gallop round some of the issues arising from spying down the ages, over at the latest issue of DIPLOMAT: French spy, Francois Henri de la Motte’s vivid execution in 1781 attracted an enthusiastic crowd of some 80,000… […]
See (and hear) how a senior Labour politician describes some of the goings-on in the Labour Party in recent years as "wicked and malicious" – and then lies about it on TV. Another triumph for ubiquitous micro-media recording. Wicked. And delicious.
According to Iain Dale, the ‘right-wing’ blogosphere needs new blood: Left-of-centre blogs take up four of the top 10 places and seven of the top 20. Last year there was only one left-wing blog (Tom Harris) in the top 10 and four in the top 20. So does this indicate […]
The 2010 UK Speechwriters’ Guild conference took place yesterday in beamish Bournemouth. To fine effect. Tobias Ellwood MP purposefully kicked off, closely followed by my own attempt to share some of the operational problems Leaders and their speechwriters face in working out how best to respond to Bad News (examples […]
According to the Total Politics list I have shot up from a scrawny 196th place (2009) in the UK Top 300 Political Blogs to a not-so-scrawny 93rd place (2010). Yay. To add to my frabjous joy, I have overtaken Craig Murray whose appeal has definitely waned – down from 95th […]
Twitter (for those not yet in on it) is a simple and therefore powerful way for people individually and collectively to share their thoughts, all with 140 characters. You can Follow the thoughts of people you like or find interesting and, of course, have people who Follow your thoughts, such […]
Off I go soon to address tomorrow this year’s Speechwriters Guild conference in Bournemouth, the theme being all about how leaders deliver good news and bad. Haha, some leaders ARE the bad news, as Gordon Brown found out to his cost. See also the results of the latest elections in the […]
The insults fly thick and fast as ever: Michelle Muscat: a thick layer of foundation not matched to her skin tone is what every girl needs if she’s in Manchester or Malta Why is this voluntary initiative being organised through a political party, with parents stupid enough to send their […]
