Back from Brussels. Here is a short article by me in the Independent today about Ejup Ganic. It’s always a pleasure to get material into a British national newspaper – work published there pops up all over the planet. But the end product is not necessarily what was sent in. In […]
And here I am over at Business and Politics, ingeniously linking the always interesting subject of Ambassadorial entertainment expenses to Human Rights: Lurking at the back of an Ambassador’s mind is a new concern: “What happens if I entertain that senior foreign colleague but a truculent Management Officer questions the […]
I spent most of yesterday discussing the politics and prospects of a small southern European country which, yes, has its problems but deals with them in a mature, sophisticated way. Namely Bosnia and Herzegovina. In particular, the way in which the Bosnian media on all sides go out of their […]
Remember Kinetic Energy and EU Foreign Policy? I now scour the Internet fondly for references to kinetic energy in other contexts. And here is a good one, applied in its natural scientific setting, as Surreptitious Evil patiently explains some basic science to a fathead insisting that 9/11 was something else: I […]
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If you type Maltastar into Google Search in the UK as of 10.26 on 15 March, this is what you get at the top of the first and vital page: Results 1 – 10 of about 177,000 for maltastar. (0.11 seconds) Search Results maltastar.com 15 Mar 2010 … Crawford refuses […]
My latest salvo at Business and Politics is on the subject of Leadership. I make the point that valiant character and moral virtues are not enough. It’s all about technique too – linking those qualities intelligently and effectively to Real Life. Take two generals in the heat of battle: General Noble exhibits […]
Oh dear. I have achieved media prominence of a sort in Malta today, becoming a leading story in the Malta Star. This publication does not like the current Malta government. Its article boldly asserts that I am the Maltese Prime Minister’s new ‘Spin Doctor’, brought in to help the PM ‘deal with […]
Driving down the M40 to visit my elderly mother today for Mother’s Day, there was a sudden whooshing sound and dazzling lights as my car was swept into hyperspace (a bit like that extended cosmic Star Gate sequence in 2001: A Space Odyssey.) Or maybe it was a traffic jam, and I […]
Here’s a handy list of outlandish racist statements. Can you guess which fine people made them? Thus: These Negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve […]
