Is here. It links to Brian Barder arguing against the very idea of any UK referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, and being struck that even many Labour List readers do not agree with him (Note: Barder long sentence advisory warning) Over on the always interesting Labour List blog, this post (reproduced […]
Well done the Internet in general and Wrinkled Weasel in particular for bringing to wider attention the expression drooling ochlocracy. It turns out that it means … us! In the context of the collective national eyebrow-raising on the subject of MPs’ expenses. William Wordsworth too chips in: ‘Twas in truth […]
Via a couple of Dizzy postings about Nadine Dorries and her blog (being taken down), I stumble via some acrimonious comments into the jungle of claims and counter-claims involving various leading British bloggers (including Iain Dale, Guido and Tim Ireland) feuding with each other. When such online rows start, they typically mutate […]
My birthday today. Hurrah. 22 May does not have too many really famous people born on it. But two people (other than myself) stand out. Ted Kaczynski, Unibomber (22 May 1942). And Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (22 May 1859). Sir Arthur would be 150 today. Here is an account of […]
My latest droll article for DIPLOMAT magazine on the strange twilight world of Diplomatic Expulsions is available here: You know the story. Only too well. Your spouse yells at you for what you have done. Or for what you have not done. Or for what you have come to represent in […]
Here is BBRU 222 hosted by a Very British dude aka Jackart. It led me to diamond geezer’s wonderful site about all things London. And the "usual gaggle of terrifyingly illiberal post from feminists". Next BBRU is hosted by Liberal England. Suggestions to britblog[at]gmail[dot]com
The age-old problem for Russia is, how to run a territory sprawling over some eleven time zones? This means Moscow catching the attention of regional leaders thousands of miles away – and keeping them in reasonable line. Over the years a Firm Hand has been seen as the best method. […]
Craig Murray weighs in hard against what he calls Iain Dale’s stinking hypocrisy: Most of you appear to read this blog at work, as readership drops at the weekend. So please do look at this piece I did on the really appalling hypocrisy of Tory blogger Iain Dale: https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2009/05/iain_dale_is_a.html#comments Iain has […]
Brian Micklethwait has compiled a handy list of British libertarian blogs of different shapes and sizes. And very distracting it is too. PM Gordon Brown gets grilled on his dodgy expenses at Capitalists@Work. And Nanny Knows Best has several postings on the murderous implications of buying teaspoons at local UK […]
The excellent site Picking Losers has this piece on the dys-economics of offshore wind power, which gives us various graphs. They appear to suggest that the more we invest in them, the less economical they become! Conclusion: It all shows that claims that you can calculate what technologies need, rather […]
