No need to dwell on the Labour Party conference. If somehow they crawl back from the living dead and make a respectable showing at the next election, so much the worse for the UK. One interesting angle in the frantic attempts to prop up this Brezhnev-style corpse is new media […]
Is narrated by the Anchoress: Two Polish men. Both artists. Both “brilliant.” Both persecuted by Nazis, in their native land. One was a prisoner, one was a slave. When the Nazis left, the Communists came. One, Roman Polanski, becomes a filmmaker. He encounters a 13 year old girl. One, Karol […]
Mark Steyn in honour of this fine Day reruns his polemic on those Danish Cartoons, which gets off to a momentous start: As Pericles told the war-battered Athenians, “To a man of spirit, cowardice and disaster coming together are far more bitter than death striking him unperceived at a time when he […]
A reader despairs of the teaching profession, citing this Teachmeet video as an example of the dumbed down way some teachers now communicate with each other: Meanwhile I am working on a presentation next week about Education, with a special look at language learning (I myself having had a good […]
The Polanski story is creating a buzz, as one might expect. My friend Anne Applebaum has been criticised for not declaring an interest. And as for Whoopi Goldberg who helpfully gives us a new feministic distinction between ‘rape’ and ‘rape-rape’?! More here. This is an easy one. What Polanski did was […]
Guido lauds the Spectator as the first UK current affairs magazine with an iPhone app: This is the future of journalism, the sooner the mediasaurs grasp this truth the more likely they are to survive into the future. I checked out the iTunes link and the only review of the App says […]
An exhausting week of historic top-level Summiting in the USA. We had President Obama’s historic speech to the UN General Assembly, followed by assorted other speeches of varying distinction. We had an historic UN Security Council vote on nuclear weapons: . Then a probably historic G20 Summit in Pittsburgh, complete with […]
Somehow this site has been linked to by Bill Ellsworth’s. Go and look at what happens when you are over-exposed to Hippy Eastern Philosophies. And assorted paradigms. And CD covers. He shares with us this magnificent quote from Richard Fernadez: … the differences between a society which organizes itself around stern […]
On Tuesday I had the honour of addressing the Conservative Friends of Poland at the fine Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum in London. My attempted and vast unmanageable theme was European Conservatism: What’s the Big Idea? Namely a romp through a few centuries of history and the ideas underpinning contemporary […]
Chekov at Three Thousand Versts generously takes up my posting on the psychology of Russia’s foreign policy, and responds: In addition, we can agree that insensitivity to Russia’s concerns, from Nato and other western structures, caused Russian disillusionment which effects ‘cooperation’ to this day. Nato’s support for Albanian separatists in […]
