One final reminder, folks. That Total Politics blog popularity contest is coming round again. If you want to vote for your favourite political blogs, check out the rules: Entries are by email and have to include AT LEAST FIVE British blogs, listed in order of preference of up to ten blogs. […]
Remember this piece about David Horowitz on Christopher Hitchens? Are you busy, with lots to do? Forget all that, and read this long transcript of American conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt in conversation with Hitchens, now on heavy cancer treatment. Hitchens is a ferociously well read and knowledgeable person. He is a […]
I was chatting to a senior oil executive the other day (as one does), and I asked how that vast multinational corporation ran its top speech-writing function. "Oh,we have the usual – a team of young speechwriters, which is what you need these days." Really? Why do you need young […]
I am looking at buying some fitted bookcases for our next house. This website looks OK: Built-in Solutions. But as I read on, my heart sinks: We are always prompt and curtius…All Furniture is made in our workshop, that means all the mess generally associated with construction is not carried […]
The International Bar Association’s Annual Conference is this year in Vancouver in early October. And I am honoured to be included on their speaker’s list.
Or if the BBC website front page as of 0947 this morning is anything to go by, is he bowing to us? Plus how many other bowlers have managed to take 800 wickets on any given day in their fine Test careers, let alone their final day? Sigh: Muralitharan reaches […]
Bored? Frustrated? Check out the I Write Like website. It’s simple. Cut and paste in some text you’ve written, press the button and Bingo!, it tells you which famous writer your work emulates. Only problem is, it can’t make its mind up. Having cut and pasted in various passages from […]
Remember the Archbishop’s Tale? That was the peerless work of someone far far away called Iowahawk. Now he’s back, as ever on the subject of Holy Men. In this case two distinguished US politicians-cum-vicars, Al Gore and John Edwards, whose capacity for loudly pursuing righteous causes is exceeded only by the scale […]
Over at DIPLOMAT magazine is my light-touch article looking at the whys and wherefores of ‘interfering in internal affairs’. My original draft was wittily called Where Diplomacy meets Gynaecology but for no obvious reason this web version is called Diplomacy Meets Affairs of the State, which alas makes little sense.
Being a serious former Ambassador Oliver Miles manages to give the lame FCO diplo-blogging genre the thrashing it richly deserves AND do so in an elegant Guardian article: Why do diplomats (and Whitaker’s article quotes some examples from Americans as well as the British) feel the need to let it […]
