Remember drippy Comparative Politics? Now with added EU! New EU High Representative Baroness Ashton: The EU is now in a position to assume a "stronger, more credible role in the world," the nominee for the EU’s top foreign policy post says… Aargh. Who drafts this lame stuff for her? This person? […]
Former Ambassador Craig Murray and I do not always agree, although since he has wandered away from the idea of our having a public debate I can not identify where our views really do overlap, or not. But now and again he nails down a basic policy point with verve […]
At least that’s what Le Monde seems to think about Guido, our scepter’d isle’s number one political blogger: Paul Staines, conservateur barbare. Language alert – it’s in French, zut, so brush the dust of that O-Level and get stuck in. Or use Google Translator, or something.
Is hosted again by a Very British dude with his beautiful eyes. He looks at the genre. Thus: Blogging is not new – it is pamphleteering and essaying with modern technology. Early Modern Whale, for example examines a 16th Century pamphlet about a landslip in Kent, and talks about the writer using this phenomenon to […]
Here are my ten entries for this year’s Orwell Blog Prize: 14/01/2009 https://www.charlescrawford.biz/blog/art740 17/03/2009 https://www.charlescrawford.biz/blog/art859 03/05/2009 https://www.charlescrawford.biz/blog/art928 17/06/2009 https://www.charlescrawford.biz/blog/anonymous-bloggers-at-work- 26/06/2009 https://www.charlescrawford.biz/blog/a-musty-needy-eu-speech 04/08/2009 https://www.charlescrawford.biz/blog/NRWKVL599211 21/09/2009 https://www.charlescrawford.biz/blog/russia-s-foreign-policy-psycholgy-contd- 30/10/2009 https://www.charlescrawford.biz/blog/even-yet-more-further-labour-kaminski-nonsense 15/11/2009 https://www.charlescrawford.biz/blog/european-foreign-policy-v-the-iron-laws-of-physics 20/12/2009 https://www.charlescrawford.biz/blog/copenhagen-climate-summit-um-not-un These are a decent sample of my output this year, some more analytical than others. I have tried […]
Always good to hear from fellow bloggers who enjoy the product here. Such as Geoff Jones, who is to be found at https://geoffjones.com/ Geoff left school on the eve of his fifteenth birthday and has ended up a successful businessman and electronics innovator. See for example his very practical scientific […]
My mention in the Times has led to various old friends getting back in touch, including Adam LeBor. Adam knows his Balkans and has written a much praised book about the rise and fall of Slobodan Milosevic: I especially recommend the quote from the ‘senior British diplomat’ on p. 308 in […]
In the Times Dominic Lawson is unimpressed by the tone of UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband in talking about Iran and China: Our diplomatic war of words with Iran is brewing nicely. Last week the foreign secretary, David Miliband, condemned as “disturbing” the Ahmadinejad regime’s “lack of restraint” in its […]
Remember this song by Manfred Mann: I could never quite follow the words, but it has some great moments. Bruce Springsteen wrote it. A good note (so to speak) to begin 2010. Because here is Norman Fraser, again, moaning about my latest observations on Climate and all: This is a […]
I came to Raymond Chandler much too late in life. I have made up for lost time, reading several times all his private detective novels with their moody loner hero, hard-boiled egg baddies and lusciously bad dames. The frequent stylistic felicities and witticisms echo another of the last century’s great […]
