More from a reader on Craig Murray and all that: On the subject of Craig and the FCO, I haven’t read his book, or all the documents, but I understand some nasty and unsubstantiated allegations featured prominently. What’s your view on what they mean? To me the whole saga suggests […]
Sooner or later we may need to ‘think the unthinkable’ and talk to Al Qaida, according to senior UK police officer Sir Hugh Orde, who cites the IRA precedent. Meanwhile Al Qaida is said to be in retreat, according to the head of the CIA: But now, Mr Hayden said, […]
A new consensus is emerging. Biofuels are Bad. Not that long ago they were Good. As Mark Steyn puts it: On April 15, the Independent, the impeccably progressive British newspaper, editorialized: “The production of biofuel is devastating huge swathes of the world’s environment. So why on earth is the Government […]
Here I am at my desk, pecking away at the keyboard, hopping from website to website, wondering what to look at next. Millions of people round the world are doing the same. Yet how many of them are wondering what makes all this actually work? How does it happen that one types a […]
(Transparency Note: I met Jonah on a cruise back in 2005 and enjoyed his ideas and company. But we were not lovers.) What to make of Jonah Goldberg’s remarkable (if long) new book Liberal Fascism? Plenty. His basic thesis boils down to three propositions: First, non-trivial parts of today’s Western Leftist/progressive style and […]
I have been busy helping teach young diplomats some of the Darker Arts of diplomacy. Part of the course involved us all filling in a personality profile questionnaire, which purported to show what sort of person we were and how we might respond to problems in terms of the four categories above. My […]
