One of the UK’s top-rated blogs with the inevitably winning combination of a strong Northern Ireland focus plus Russia and eastern Europe is Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness. Have a look. The picture at the top of the front page is a masterpiece by Russian/Ukrainian artist Ilya Repin, The Volga […]
Today is the 70th anniversary of one of the greatest crimes in history: the Molotov/Ribbentrop Pact. These two villains scrawled a line through a map of Europe to show who would grab what, then signed it. Here it is in two legendary cartoons by Herblock and Low:
Commenting on my link to Sarah Palin’s arguments on tort reform, reader Daniel Simpson mysteriously asks whether I have read Private Eye? Private Eye, for non-British readers, is a British Institution. For nearly five decades now it’s been serving up a capricious mix of insider gossip, scandal and satire/wit which […]
Andrew Ian Dodge adds a further gloss in a comment on my posting below: Yep, its me. One hopes that no one would fake being me. I understand your point of view and needless to say respect it as its private "property". In any case your policy needs to be […]
Matthew Cain asks whether bloggers have responsibilities for material posted on their blogs by others: If I invite you to attend a performance of my local drama club, I wouldn’t expect you to judge me by the audience. But if I invite you to my birthday party, I would expect […]
Most of the noise generated by Foreign Secretary David Miliband’s observations on a BBC Great Lives radio programme has been linked to his words on terrorism: Asked by presenter Matthew Parris whether there were any circumstances in which terrorism was justified, Mr Miliband said: ‘Yes, there are circumstances in which […]
Andrew Ian Dodge of the heavy metal school of politics part of the blogosphere (assuming that it is indeed that Andrew Ian Dodge) replies to my earlier posting today about the responsibility if any which bloggers have for comments posted by others on their sites: In a word no. You […]
The idea has emerged at Constantly Furious of the Total Politics Top 20 Libertarian blogs 2009 each linking to the list, for ease of reference for readers. Here it is (below). Have a browse. All shapes and sizes of libertarian attitudes and styles represented, and the list does represent the […]
One thing we Brits (sic) like to do (see this blog and many others) is to pore over the ethnic and other divisions in countries beyond our fog-bound shores and try to come up with ingenious outcomes for them. See eg Bosnia/Afghanistan/Kashmir/Cprus and so on and on. You name a conflict […]
