Is hosted this week by Cabalamat. Lots of links on the usual subjects (feminism, politics) plus a stirring account of the creation of compost – with plenty of pictures – from Low Carbon Lifestyle who is a significant expert on the subject. Given what is going on in Westminster, a pile of […]
Twice a year Gordon Brown fills his party’s sails with pride. His tornado of facts and figures magics up images of untold national wealth and success. Sixty per cent more personal wealth! Most chancellors sound as if chunks of their speech are penned by officials, not quite convincing in their […]
I dimly recall one of my interviews at the Civil Service Selection Board back in 1979. The issue of Geography and Determinism came up and I recall making a couple of brilliant insights as to how far (and when) the way people behave is shaped by where and how they […]
For any reader still pondering on the Torture issue, I recommend the judgment by the House of Lords in 2005 on the issue of when evidence obtained by torture (or alleged to be so obtained) might be admitted in UK judicial proceedings. There are in fact seven judgments in this […]
Over at anticant’s arena I find an awesome sentence with both my name and that of Camille Paglia in it which just transcends all understanding, or at least mine: “It is this animal craving for something simple and, I daresay, edenic that undergirds our hyperaestheticised pornography in /all/ of its post-modern dimensions. One need […]
Craig Murray has married his partner Nadira . My warm congratulations (and I mean it). Once the honeymoon is over, I invite Craig to think about setting up that debate at long last on Diplomacy and Ethics or something along those lines? One venue has already been kindly offered. But a debate on […]
BBRU 220 is hosted by the furious Mr Eugenides. See the clarion call for nicer treatment of Fat People. And some lies about smoking. Please send any suggestions for links to British bloggers for the next round-up to britblog@gmail.com
A former top MI6 officer has some brisk things to say about the way foreign policy is made in the UK these days – and the consequences: Mr Inkster said the world was moving from "being policed by America to be policed by nobody" and the danger of an increasingly […]
My posting below on Torture has prompted various comments, some of which have come from people arriving here via my former FCO colleague Craig Murray’s site and who support strongly his insistence that Torture Does Not Work. See for example Moo: I hope you’re not seriously suggesting two things: that torture works and […]
On a cheerier note, a public thank you to Mr Wrinkled Weasel and his wife Kirstine for hosting me for lunch in Edinburgh on Saturday. WW (aka Ged Eastick from the family that invented Golden Syrup) and I somehow got in touch a few weeks ago via all this blogging […]
