This astounding and inspiring piece by James Lileks from 2003 gives a view of the 9/11 attacks that always bears repeating as the anniversary comes round again: Two years later I take a certain grim comfort in some people’s disinterest in the war; if you’d told me two years ago […]
A sad case. Victoria McClure was sentended to 18 months’ imprisonment for causing death by dangerous driving. She had been adjusting her satnav gizmo and lost her driving concentration, thereby knocking over a cyclist who tragically was killed: Judge Nicholas Wood, sentencing McClure at Reading Crown Court, said she should […]
Following my BBC Newsnight appearance last night re the prison sentence given to Bradley Manning, Riaz Ahmed has been in touch to make a strong point: Do you believe that the crew of crazy horse 18 (who murdered those people in Iraq – including two children – 7 year old […]
Instapundit is 12 today. He helped create and define the very idea of ‘blogging’. Which in part is why you are reading this. This sort of unflagging effort takes incredible diligence and generosity. Many of Glenn Reynolds’ posts are little more than a link to something of interest (usually to […]
A busy day, with Sky TV coming round to the house to interview me about the draft speech by The Queen on the eve of 1980s nuclear war, except that it wasn’t. Here is piece I have written for the Telegraph on the clueless draft speech supposedly by HM The […]
What to make of the Bradley Manning verdict – guilty on multiple counts? My first reaction is “good!”. Here is a silly if not mentally ill squirt who abused a position of trust and leaked vast quantities of American classified material, most of it things he could not even have […]
I have been away at Crawf Major’s University graduation ceremony and generally wilting in the heat of the sun and the England cricket attack. Some space for some writing now reappears, including a nice opportunity to write something for Scotland’s Sunday Post about Martin Luther King’s I have a Dream […]
The surging movement championed by President Obama towards gun control in the USA turns out to be a steady movement towards fewer controls. See this interesting map: Illinois has just become a shall-issue state, which means that pretty much any law-abiding adult age 21 and above can get a license […]
Here is my latest piece for Commentator replying to Suzanne Moore in the Guardian who is fretting about what she sees as her loss of privacy and freedom at the hands of intrusive state eavesdroppers: Suzanne Moore genially admits that she has never given much thought to how much of […]
Every now and again an article comes along that assembles all one’s own inchoate half-thoughts into a free-flowing stupendous whole. This time Charles Moore delivers on the plight of wretched US über-leaker Edward Snowden: Acting in the name of a morality which disdains allegiance to the rule of national law, […]
