If you want a scintillating, furious polemic on why the Yes to AV campaign lost so heavily, go no further than Liberal Vision: The YES campaign was eminently winnable. But it ended up being run by readers of the Guardian for readers of the Guardian. Readers of this newspaper are […]
Tim Worstall points us to what he accurately calls a doozy: a piece by Professor Morgan Kelly about the appalling plight facing an Ireland now impaled on assorted policy outcomes which lead straight to national disaster. It’s readable and unambiguous. Thus: Honohan’s miscalculation of the bank losses has turned out to […]
Most of the moral and legal burbling on whether it was right for the US special forces to shoot Bin Laden ("extrajudicial execution/killing" seems to be one the favourite phrases used) utterly misses the point. Which is that the whole operation depended on brave beyond belief soldiers walking into a […]
This seems like an appropriate time to remind gentle readers of this famous episode in the history of the then ruling Labour Party’s attitude to possible electoral voting procedure changes: Back in early 2005 I had sent an email to the FCO team in which I attempted to explain what […]
Here is my first-ever piece for a new website, The Commentator, looking at some of the tired and/or snide arguments against the US action against Osama Bin Laden which are now busily infiltrating the BBC and other parts of the British media. Including this passage, on where the Prime Minister hit […]
Here’s an unexpected bonus: a series of pictures of the now (mainly) decaying bombastic communist monuments erected across Yugoslavia in the Tito era to commemorate supposedly heroic Partisan achievements or sites of Nazi and other war crimes by the Communists’ opponents during WW2: In the 1980s, these monuments attracted millions of […]
Mark Steyn with disarming honesty mulls over his 2002 assertion that Osama Bin Laden was well and truly dead: As things turned out, I was a tad, ah, premature Read it for a reprise of some earlier Steyn classics, including various high-profile punters analysing Osama’s 2001 video message: ROBERT FISK, foreign correspondent, The […]
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Max Atkinson praises President Obama’s ‘masterful mood changes’ exemplified in part by his Osama Bin Laden televised address last night. You can see and read it at https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/05/02/osama-bin-laden-dead Yet it’s much too long, with (as usual) too much Obama praising Obama, plus some of it is, ahem, just ghastly: […]
Jim Lacey at NRO: Despite the fact that our special forces were on the ground only 40 minutes, I assume that they did not leave the compound before emptying it of everything of intelligence value. It will be interesting, therefore, to see if Osama’s movements over the past ten years […]
