Wearing my ADRg Ambassadors hat I was in London on Tuesday to give a workshop to a prominent law firm on The Psychology of Negotiation. The people who attended spend much of their time drafting the legal clauses needed to give effect to deals already done or in prospect. They nonetheless […]
Welcome readers from Steyn Online The Orwell Prize have put out a fascinating statement on the J Hari affair. The Council considered one article submitted by Hari in 2008, ‘How multiculturalism is betraying women’ (The Independent, 30 April 2007), on the basis of the evidence which had been received. […]
I write little here about Israel/Palestine as I have little to say which countless others are not saying. Plus I don’t have first-hand professional experience. What is going on? Of course the Palestinians want to advance their claims and demands on all international fronts. Upping their status at the UN […]
Just back from seeing Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. The good news is that it is pretty faithful to the original story, cramming a lot into the film while maintaining moody and sometimes tense mystery. The bad news is that it is pretty faithful to the book in having a feeble […]
My latest DIPLOMAT piece is up: The UK’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) has an imposing suite of UK-based and e-learning training courses for British diplomats. Some aim at improving skills (Diversity; One Team, Many Cultures; Communication and Assertiveness; Performance Management; First Aid); others look at thematic policy questions (Advanced […]
Here is the full text of the interesting submission made by the Prosecution team in the infamous Dominique Strauss-Kahn case asking that the case be dismissed. The prosecution case for this complete change of tack in DSK’s favour is simple. The lies and contradictions in the hotel-maid’s testimony were so considerable […]
That letter from President Sarkozy and Chancellor Merkel to Herman van Rompuy (President of the European Council) has shaken rather than stirred the word’s financial markets. I thought it worth a detailed look. But Protesilaos Stavrou has done it for me. Here is his thorough and interesting fisking by someone close […]
My latest piece over at Dale & Co looks at a possible spiral down into the next global conflagration: In short, the planet’s legal and moral order looks and feels weak. For the first time in centuries the USA and Europe are increasingly unable to define, let alone set the […]
So much going on in the world. Most of it unambiguously bad. Tension in Kosovo. Tension in the Turkish army. Libya duly quagmired. Famine in Africa. Something or other going in and around North Korea. And so on. Yet bigger even than those problems, each of which is capable of […]
More mega-comment web-factories are appearing, before our very eyes. Here is Iain Dale’s new Dale & Co. site, a self-styled current affairs mega-blog. I of course immediately click on World Affairs, and what do I find? Not much, including this curious little piece by one James Chartlton (sic), a trainee […]
