Obama is talking about ‘spreading the wealth around’. The deep problem with that idea is that it is not so easy to spread the energy, creativity, persistence, ambition and willingness to take risks and to make sacrifices which together combine to create the wealth in the first place. So there […]
A curious article in the FT by John Gapper argues that the mainstream US media have moved to the Left to reflect the ‘national mood’. Surely it is more a determined attempt by pro-Democrat tendencies in these outlets to shift the national mood so that their candidate wins? The Gapper analysis […]
There is to be a Special Prize for Blogs this year for the first time, under the rubric of the excellent Orwell Prize 2009. Here is what one needs to offer to be in with a chance of winning: The Orwell Prize rewards those who achieve George Orwell’s ambition ‘to make political […]
In Brussels this week my hotel gave me a free copy of New Europe, a weekly European newspaper with a lively web presence. See eg my former colleague Sir Stephen Wall on whether Britain (sic) is a European nation. No surprise at his answer (Stephen was HM Ambassador to the […]
Tim Worstall makes an eloquent case for thinning the ranks of the stupid, once and for all.
From Balkan tabloid Kurir: Zašto stjuardese moraju da budu lepe? Da bi avion mogao da se digne! Hoho. It helps to be Serb to get it.
Blogging latterly light, or to be precise nil – I have been on diplomatic training expeditions (as trainer) in Brussels and London. Interesting trying to explain to young diplomats how to set about working out how to respond in policy and media terms to a serious event. My approach: whatever […]
Via an agitated Guido, more on seeming collectivist anxiety about the impact in High Places of personal freedom . Namely Culture Secretary Andy Burnham: The time has come for perhaps a different approach to the internet," he said. "I want to even up that see-saw, even up the regulation [imbalance] […]
Can this stuff be for real? Or is it a spoof site trying to make North Korea look ridiculous by emitting spoof communistic nonsense, a sort of uber-Commie Postmodern Generator putting Marxist phrases in random order and thereby making no difference to the senselessness of the outcome? Thus: Pyongyang, October 13 […]
Many people do. It took a while, but I have finally caught up with Rickrolling. Nick Lowe had the last word to say on this subject, as on most others:
