Is delivered to Glenn Reynolds by Michael Yon, who knows a thing or two about military work at the sharp-end: What I can say is that it sounds like the US Marines are waging death and destruction on the Taliban in a way the Taliban are not used to. Average […]
Aaaaaarrrrrgggghhhhh. The BBC is cutting some language services on the World Service: The Macedonian, Albanian and Serbian services will be axed, as will English for the Caribbean and Portuguese for Africa, in a bid to save £46m a year Pa kako je to uopste moguce, bre? Sramota! One of the […]
Anyone interested in learning more about what is happening in both the UK and Poland with different forms of renewable energy (biomass, wind, waste-to-energy and so on) should get on down to the Radisson Blu Portman Hotel at 22 Portman Square. London W1 next Wednesday (26 January), for a brisk seminar […]
Unsated by Steampunk Palin, you want more buxom feisty American women transforming the world against evil men? Swing by this Guardian analysis by Madeleine Bunting of Hillary Clinton’s feminist foreign policy: On countless occasions since arriving at the state department, Clinton has asserted that the rights of women and girls are now […]
This isn’t first century BC Egypt, when having an attractive leader might theoretically provide some kind of geo-political advantage vis a vis our standing with the Romans. I don’t want to see a drawing of the former Governor of Alaska in what appears to be a leather bustier and garters… […]
Behold! The mad logic of Dr Clare Gerada, chair of the Royal College of GPs, as reported in the Telegraph: Dr Gerada said healthy individuals who had paid to have the jab on a private patient basis at pharmacies shared some of the blame for the shortages. Many pharmacies have […]
When anything ‘bad’ happens collectivists stampede to call for ‘something to be done’, usually More Government. What a strange attitude that is. It somehow assumes that everything in principle can be regulated, and that a crude cost/benefit analysis run by collectivists is invariably the way to decide what outcome is […]
New world records for drivel and shameful dishonest nonsense have been set following the Tucson shootings. As far as I can see, the only thing President Obama wants to ‘heal’ is his own dismal ratings, and his speech to some extent may have done that – for a while. But the […]
You may have missed this fascinating blog entry by Jim Harvey of Allcow Communications, so here it is: I’m not easily impressed, and I’ve often found Foreign Office types to be snooty and dismissive of those of us who work in the ‘Del Boy’ world of sales and marketing, though […]
After a longish pause from doing anything to this site under the throes of moving, I return after unpacking several million boxes and getting the broadband up and running. To my surprise a lot of people have been reading the site even though I have posted nothing. Hmm. BT’s performance when […]
