How to ‘explain’ the shootings in Cumbria? Jeremy Seabrook in the Guardian helpfully shows why he is inexplicable: The second thing is, in our desire to explain these events solely as examples of personal pathology, we concentrate on the individual, and do not interrogate the role of society and a […]
A neat little piece here, getting to the heart of Reality – and where Reality meets Politicians. Not a place politicians much like, as it shows too much about them: “Plug the damn hole,” Obama told them. That’s the politician’s answer to every intractable problem: give orders, issue threats, and […]
As readers will have noticed, someone describing himself/herself as George Dutton is now following this site closely and commenting with oh-so-clever remarks celebrating Socialism. He quotes from a remarkable essay by Albert Einstein on Why Socialism? from 1949. Here is Albert fretting over the survival of the human race (as well […]
With Nick Drew and others, I’ll be joining Iain Dale on LBC tomorrow night from midnight through to 0600 on Friday to offer thoughts on the UK elections. My niche will be foreign thoughts/angles. If any readers out there – especially people overseas – want to send in any observations […]
With the state funeral of President Kaczynski completed, attention now will turn to the cause of the crash at Smolensk airport. Not before a surprisingly weak article by Denis Dutton and Adam Chmielewski appears at Open Democracy: The air-crash which decapitated Poland’s state elite may owe something to reckless behaviour, […]
I have written extensively on this site about what the Katyn Massaces represents for Poland, for Russia, for Europe – and for civilisation. Type Katyn into the site’s Search function and get the links. See for example this extract from my final FCO telegram, sent to London from Warsaw as […]
Here (below) is the text of my appreciation of the life and times of Lech and Maria Kaczynski, now up at Radio Free Europe. Welcome Steyn Online readers. * * * * * I attended a smart Warsaw dinner party in 2006, not long after the Kaczynski twins and their Law […]
Reaction from around the world to my unfortunate collision with Malta is flooding in. Such as this link sent from the USA to Maltese proverbs. For example:
RFE/RL is an excellent resource for all sorts of detail about what is happening in the former Soviet Union. See especially The Power Vertical, a blog written especially for Russia wonks and obsessive Kremlin watchers. Try these pieces: One about new popular protests against price rises and corruption (even if […]
Yesterday in London I was on the stage at the Polish Cultural Centre in West London for a discussion about Solidarity – Thirty Years After. Others on the panel were Wladyslaw Frasyniuk (former top Solidarity activist and former political prisoner turned politician) – someone whose lively intelligence has left him […]
