Remember Honduras? Remember witty Ivor, who commented on my earlier postings: This is splendidly comical. On one side, the United Nations, the OAS, the United States government and, apparently, most informed opinion worldwide. Lined up against them, someone who spent 12 months as Honduran Minister of Culture – a political big-hitter, […]
I have been struggling with my paper on military/civilian cooperation in ‘fragile states’. It is easy to think that the whole business is hopeless. It is just not possible in the short time-scales we all can cope with these days to work out how best to achieve Stability while maintaining Legitimacy. Not […]
Knowing next to nothing about Honduras I am forced to rely on perusing the world’s media. Ousted President Zelaya is cranking up a lot of international pressure in his favour: The Organization of American States has suspended Honduras in protest at the ousting of President Manuel Zelaya. The rare decision was […]
Witty Ivor (sneaking past my comment box defences without leaving an email address) piles on the pressure: This is splendidly comical. On one side, the United Nations, the OAS, the United States government and, apparently, most informed opinion worldwide. Lined up against them, someone who spent 12 months as Honduran Minister […]
Have we just had a vast new shift in the way the European Union is to be run, with we dopey Wimbledon- and Michael Jackson-obsessed Brits utterly missing the story? Germany’s top Constitutional Court has taken a view on the Lisbon Treaty and come up with some far-reaching conclusions. Which […]
I previously wrote about the ethics or not of one US blogger ‘outing’ an anonymous (to be precise pseudonymous) blogger who had persistently criticised him. Now we have Orwell Prize winner Jack Night revealed to be Detective Constable Richard Horton by the Times. Iain Dale is sickened. FleetStreetBlues is/are pragmatic: […]
Is the British National Party primitive and racist? Or (worse) sophisticated and racist? There are quite a few websites out there which in one way or the other give cover/sympathy to the BNP or at least its arguments against ‘elites’, yet which are evidently written by educated people. See eg […]
Brown was not discomforted alone. Parties of the centre left fell back across Europe despite the crisis of global capitalism. Michael White in the Guardian glumly picks through the wreckage of the Labour Party’s crashing failure last night in the European elections. Maybe parties of the centre left fell back […]
Here is the full text of President Obama’s Cairo speech. It had many strong points. A friendly, open-hearted yet serious and businesslike tone. Lots of inclusive words such as ‘respect’ and ‘partnership’. Some quite firm lines on Israel and its right to exist, to the point of being seen as surprisingly […]
Was there a massacre by Sri Lankan forces as they finished off the Tamil Tigers? And did the UN know about it? Seems so. The numbers of people killed look to go well beyond the Srebrenica war crime. Critics of such horrors often miss one of the unspoken points about […]
