For those who have not seen it, here is how the USA’s ‘Tea Party’ political gamechanging grassroots protests against Big Government started a year ago:
For those who have not seen it, here is how the USA’s ‘Tea Party’ political gamechanging grassroots protests against Big Government started a year ago:
I was down at Guidhall in the City yesterday, to watch the special ceremony of Poland’s excellent Ambassador Barbara Tuge-Erecinksa being accepted as a Freeman of the City. Barbara was deeply involved in the Gdansk Shipyard protests and the heroic rise of the Solidarity movement: Active in the underground during the martial […]
An elegant essay by Theodore Dalrymple on legendary lofty US economist J K Galbraith. Needless to say, what caught my eye was reference to a book JGK wrote in 1958, Journey to Poland and Yugoslavia. As a fine, prosperous East Coast liberal from a democracy, JKG was disinclined to see […]
As you can see, time for a New Look. The old one looked too cluttered and (I was assured) too ‘mid-90s’. Plus the colours looked OK in the day but at night became disagreeable, So, on to a simpler, cleaner, brighter future. Thanks to Oxford Webware. And you all need to be […]
What’s the difference between the way top leaders deal with other and the beery ruminations of blokes in pubs, banging on about the about the mischief and duplicity of foreigners? Less than you might think!
Luckily the Technology Liberation Front give us the answer. Pragmatic optimism.
More from me (if you can face it) over at Business and Politics. On Iran – who is weak and strong in the Negotiations between Iran/USA/Russia/China: It all boils down to a simple proposition: you don’t win more in any negotiation than your objective strength deserves. In a struggle between […]
Remember the Siege of Gondor in Lord of The Rings, when the defenders fall back from one defensive ring to the next as the wild armies of orcs crash through? Brian Micklethwait painstakingly looks at how the proponents of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) came to add Immediate and Catastrophic to the […]
Bishop Hill has been trying to post a climate comment on the Guardian‘s opinion site, CiF. But he is being ‘moderated’. In other words he is in a category of suspected comments offenders, which means that his comments may or may not be posted, once the ‘moderators’ have perused and […]
Just to say that those readers who have not yet had a quick look at ADRg Ambassadors – a bespoke new senior mediation, consultancy and training panel comprising various former Ambassadors – should do so. Since our launch in January we have attracted some healthy interest, including from quite unexpected […]
