Time to branch out. Not least on the dynamic Business and Politics Blog, where my first (albeit somewhat laconic) Diplomatic Despatch has just been posted. More to come…
Time to branch out. Not least on the dynamic Business and Politics Blog, where my first (albeit somewhat laconic) Diplomatic Despatch has just been posted. More to come…
Another look at Ayn Rand, this time dwelling (reasonably) on her Russian roots and their literary impact on her books. That said, I think Anthony Daniels misinterprets a number of the examples he quotes from her novels to make his point, namely that Rand was clever and perceptive but above […]
I continue to be baffled and enraged by the cost of e-books. Why should a text whose distribution/printing/packaging costs are close to zero (not to mention the fact that all that horrid carbon is being saved by not printing it on paper) cost almost as much in an e-version as […]
Noting this in passing I was struck by the title of the video link: Nick Gillespie pwns Blond Health Nazi What on earth is pwns? This. Which takes one to the anarchic future of the English language, and maybe of others too. From English Lit to English Leet. The tragedy […]
Here in full gush is our friend Johann Hari, this time bewailing the end of democracy in the USA: For more than a century, the US has slowly put some limits – too few, too feeble – on how much corporations can bribe, bully or intimidate politicians. On Tuesday, they […]
Via the excellent Browser, here is a significant and subtle article by Lawrence Lessig about how changing technology creates unfathomable complications and difficulties for sorting out legal rights to books and films made decades ago under very different circumstances. The key point is that for films especially, the array of […]
Craig Murray’s vanity knows no bounds. His ‘story’ is soon to be dramatised on the BBC! If I can bear to listen I’ll do so and give you a full and fair review. Meanwhile he launches another misguided missile at the role of the government’s Law Officers. He appears to […]
Mark Steyn has it: Whenever aspiring writers ask me for advice, I usually tell ’em this: Don’t just write there, do something. Learn how to shingle a roof, or tap-dance, or raise sled dogs. Because if you don’t do anything, you wind up like Obama and Fineman – men for […]
Somehow my site has been linked to by this one: the New Shelton wet/dry. Namely my posting How to Start a Speech. Check it out. It probably makes sense to people who read it regularly. It has all sorts of quirky and interesting material, such as this nice link to the […]
