The results of the Total Politics blog survey 2009 are emerging. This blog made it again into the Top 20 UK Libertarian blog list, albeit down several notches (11th last year, 16th this year). This year again my total readership has moved upwards steadily, but I suspect that the TP 2009 […]
At last, the man himself: I am proud of my record in combating anti-Semitism. I have used my seat in the European Parliament to highlight how it still festers in parts of Poland. I am active in the European Friends of Israel. I am equally proud of my Party’s record. […]
There have been strong reactions in ‘Western’ capitals to the latest punishment handed out to Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma, the key effect of which is to stop her running in the next round of national elections. Malaysia too is dismayed. President Sarkozy and the British government are talking […]
Here is Liam Murray answering some far-reaching claims made by John Holbo (Crooked Timber) on Slippery Slope arguments. John Holbo: Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue. And slippery slope arguments, arguments from unintended consequences and the paranoid style generally are the tribute conservatism pays to the deep […]
It has come to this. I am transformed from a hoplessly progressive Guardian reader into hopelessly progressive Guardian writer. My Response to Timothy Garton Ash’s recent article about Michal Kaminski has appeared. The article as I drafted it for the paper has been tweaked by Guardian HQ in certain respects for unclear […]
This Washington Post article makes a deft case for the claim that the anonymous Joker/Socialist posters of President Obama are really racist: Although Ledger was white, and the Joker is white, this equation of the wounded and the wounding mirrors basic racial typology in America. Urban blacks — the thinking […]
Deep, deep as we are plunged into the part of the year when the newspapers move at last to the Subjects which Really Matter, I note this article in my own newspaper the marvellous Guardian which dwells on the etiquette of, hem, peeing in the shower, preferably when the water is […]
Many people wonder why politicians and spinners work so hard on ‘image’ issues, trying to control what images the public see.. This picture shows why. Those fleeting snapshots of a split-second’s lack of concentration can come to define that elusive but real force called Character, in the eyes of friends and […]
Timothy Garton Ash (whom I know and respect of old) bangs on again about the UK Conservative Party’s engagement in the newly formed European Conservatives and Reformists formation within the European Parliament: The farce of David Cameron’s Latvian legion becomes more ridiculous by the day. Last month, I deplored the […]
Voting in the Total Politics Blog Poll ends at midnight today. So, you know what to do.
