Once upon a time I was honoured to be noticed by the great Instapundit. Readership shoots up fleetingly if the Professor links to you on his site, as his readers run into the hundreds of thousands. Ditto Guido. An Iain Dale link too is much prized. But to get a […]
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 […]
Over at Business and Politics. Thus: Remember the Bible parable of the Prodigal Son? He squandered his fortune but saw the error of his ways and crept back home. He was warmly welcomed by his father, who explained the significance of his repentance to an older brother unimpressed by the […]
Nick Hogan has been released, in an interesting example of Blogger Power (of sorts). Anna Raccoon helped lead the charge – well done her and Old Holborn. Some of the detail on the case as they report it is striking. I don’t smoke and don’t like being in smoke-filled places. […]
Simon Heffer ponders the decline of the Obama Administration’s credibility, arguing in part thus: "Obama’s big problem," a senior Democrat told me, "is that four times as many people watch Fox News as watch CNN." The Fox network is a remarkable cultural phenomenon which almost shocks those of us from […]
A reader argues that I am underestimating the impact of Fox News in the USA: Thus the numbers of people ‘reached’ in America are not the paltry 2.8 million you purport, but rather 80% of the total viewership for the day, 18,166,000, (again ridiculous, 20% of 18 million people did […]
Over at the latest Crawford Diplomatic Despatch: It all boils down to a profound infantilisation of public life. Government has turned into feckless dim-witted parents who treat their children like spoiled brats. The children themselves duly morph into something neurotic, angry and sly. To win the public’s loathsome brattish affections […]
Dnevni Avaz in Sarajevo reports that the UK court has ordered that Ejup Ganic stay in prison for a further week, apparently to give Serbia more time to present evidence against him for the Dobrovoljacka St massacre in 1992. A protest demonstration is to be held outside the British and […]
I have just given a short interview to Radio Free Europe in Sarajevo about the Ganic problem. The interviewer asked a question about the abuse of UK courts for political purposes. I pointed out that there are two completely different issues here, which may (understandably) be merging into one in […]
Update: Bishop Hill (being a lot smarter than I am) has found a way to save the key sound-clip. See also the interesting comments the posting has prompted. * * * * * Quick! Listen before it disappears down the iPlayer memory hole. BBC presenter Peter Allen on Radio 5 live […]
