The Browser hosted an excellent first birthday party last night in London. The Browser is a good-looking attempt to set up a smart person’s online content aggregator organised in helpful but manageable categories – somewhere between the eclectic and leisurely Arts & Letters and the Economist. It is getting a […]
Here is Baroness Ashton laying out her stall for EU collective foreign policy, in an ill-drafted text piling on one wordy cliche after another: I believe that a lot can be achieved with quiet diplomacy. We need people who can listen as well as talk, and who can work behind […]
Remember the FCO website’s prophetic announcement of an EU statement welcoming Free and Peaceful Elections in Honduras? That seems to have vanished. And we still have no official UK pronouncement via the site on this complicated issue with its many regional and other ramifications. So much for British Foreign Policy […]
Talking of libel, I am drawn mothishly to the various legal processes involving a certain Johanna Kaschke suing different people for defamation. Harry fears for blog freedom. One of her lawsuits is against ex-punk, ex-Trot David Osler. Not easy to follow all this if you don’t follow it. But do […]
Mr. President, Members of the Court, I am a devoted but disgruntled South Australian. “I hereby declare the independence of South Australia.” What has happened? Precisely nothing. Have I committed an internationally wrongful act in your presence? Of course not. Have I committed an ineffective act? Very likely. I have […]
Here is an online petition calling for reform of the English libel laws. Not sure that I quite agree with the idea of exempting ‘interactive Internet sites’. But this area of law clearly needs a serious spring-clean, if only to work out how best to balance free speech, fair comment […]
The full text of that President Obama-Bush Nobel Peace Prize speech is here. Some good strong passages here, not least the strong reference to the E-word and its linking to al-Qaida: I face the world as it is, and cannot stand idle in the face of threats to the American people. […]
Guido on left-wing hypocrisy: Left-wing and Green bloggers have been banging on about how Iain Dale and other Tory bloggers don’t toe the official Conservative Party policy line on on the environment, as if they think the honest heterodoxy of the Tory blogosphere is a bug, not a feature. Except […]
…a post that demonstrates the real power of the blogosphere, in which the sharpest insights are not to be found in the highest profile blogs but the ones just bubbling underneath. Charles has an excellent piece on how the inner inner ring of the British establishment is now punishing Tony […]
Luckily for us, Daniel Simpson has been lucky enough to get the full transcript of a Nobel Prize acceptance speech which President Obama won’t deliver. It is well worth reading this Top Secret text, as it elegantly describes in Obama-style language a parallel universe which might exist but does not […]
