The Weinergate scandal soared to a spectacular new level yesterday in New York, when Congressman Weiner admitted to a press conference that he had lied about his obscene Twitterish activities. Not that that made his situation much better. Pressed on what he knew about the young women with whom he’d been ‘communicating’ […]
Y’all never knew that way back I cut one superb if now little known soul record, did you? Well here’s the proof. Click on the link to listen: "Southern soul in the classic 6/8 tempo, delivered in the grand manner." Listening to it reminded me of this immortal line from […]
There may still be people hiding in caves in Afghanistan who have not followed in incredible detail the frabjous Weinergate Scandal in the USA. Did cocky Congressman Anthony Weiner (Dem) sent a young lady via Twitter a picture of his well-endowed underpants? If not, who did, how and why? And […]
I have written a piece for Financier Worldwide on the dark arts of negotiating in central and eastern Europe: The implicit view is that it is the outcome, not process, which really counts, and that the value of different outcomes can be measured. However, based on my experience as a […]
ADRg Ambassadors are now gathering nice momentum. After launching ourselves last year as the world’s first Ambassador-level mediation and consultancy panel, we have now reconstituted the group formally into an LLP. The plan is steadily to build the ‘brand’ by emphasising the way we can contribute to high-level corporate diplomacy. One way […]
Remember my lyrical piece about Left student activism at Oxford back in the 1970s? No, you don’t. So read it now. And marvel at the taxonomy of assorted Lefts: Labour Party members and moderates: weedy, hopeful, useful idiots Broad Left: Labour Party members who sucked up to the Communists Communists: small in number, […]
A few days ago there was a flurry of gruesome media coverage of the appalling death in Crimea (Ukraine) of a local Muslim girl who had been a beauty queen, and stoned to death by an enraged boyfriend for breaching Islamic Law. Only one problem. It wasn’t true. Apparently. Read […]
If you want to die laughing, get over to Twitter and check out #ghettospellingbee. An unfeasibly long string of absurd jokes based on African-American speech puns. Thus: ruedoo CRueL RueL # HARASSMENT- My girl caught me talking to a chic at the club, but I told her, harassment nothing to me.ghettospellingbee […]
Exhibit A: a superb article describing research which shows convincingly how the influence of the bureaucratic-cultural disciplines of the Austro-Hungarian Empire lives on in today’s Europe. Thus: Our results show that past formal institutions can leave a long-lasting legacy through cultural norms – even after some are generations of being governed […]
The Queen’s Club will be celebrating it’s 125th Anniversary by hosting a sumptious ball for the Membership and their guests on Friday 8th July 2011. It will be the most spectacular party in the Club’s history Count me out.
