I have done some changes to the rear-end (so to speak) of this site to make things easier for myself. One novelty is that my posts here are now numbered. This one is the 2367th posting since the website began in early 2008. The preceding piece on the DSK case […]
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 […]
Soon after the US-led attack on Saddam Hussein began, the rattled Gaddafi regime sent an urgent message to London asking to meet a top MI6 officer. The rest is now history. This encounter set in train a series of top-level diplomatic manoeuvres leading to Gaddafi/Libya renouncing its weapons of mass destruction. […]
GCSEs: sloppy grammar will cost pupils’ one in 10 marks Pupils face losing more than one in 10 marks in their GCSEs for poor spelling and grammar amid fears that too many teenagers start work with poor literacy skills. Helpful story and excellent government policy-shift. But amazing how the Telegraph’s […]
One of the greatest passages in the Bible: Then the Lord said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?""I know not," he replied. "Am I my brother’s keeper?" When – and to what extent – is X responsible for Y? German President Christian Wulff might be expected with his first […]
Sign up for the UK Speechwriters’ Guild 2011 Conference in Bournemouth. List of speakers and themes are here. I am leading a session on Writing Speeches in English for Non-Native Speakers. Last year’s event was impressive. If you are at all interested in learning a lot about speechwriting, public speaking and […]
These extracts from the German Bundesbank August Outlook (via Guido) capture something as basic as basic can be in the way Germany looks at the Eurozone’s problems. The Bundesbank says almost in so many words that if EU member states want the benefit of the full weight of German financial discipline […]
Here is the later part of my Commentator piece this morning on Libya, featuring some thoughts on chess and politics – and why the usual clever moaners are wrong again: … slowly and surely and with a lot of pain the capacity of the Gaddafi loyalists to hold out was […]
Here is my latest LSE book review of a tome exploring the exotic world of rumours – how they spread, what they mean, and what might be done about them: The Global Grapevine: Why Rumours of Terrorism, Immigration and Trade Matter. Gary Alan Fine and Bill Ellis, OUP 2010 My […]
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