We don’t think much about our hands until they are hurt, and all of a sudden numerous little tasks we took for granted suddenly become impossible or painful. Hands are incredibly flexible. Think what is happening to enable them to pick up from a table in succession a coin, a […]
P J O’Rourke on the US elections: Democrats hate Democrats most of all. Witness the policies that Democrats have inflicted on their core constituencies, resulting in vile schools, lawless slums, economic stagnation, and social immobility. Democrats will do anything to make sure that Democratic voters stay helpless and hopeless enough […]
Charlotte Gore’s piece on 15 October is being widely quoted. Rightly. Because with unerring precision she drills down deep into the moral darkness of welfare policy as currently practised: Think about how people feel! Think about all the things they could do with that money, or that job, or learn […]
Iain Dale calls for a debate on the options for limiting strikes in economic sectors which provide ‘essential services’: Trade unions have an important part to play in trying to represent their members’ interests and individual rights should not be trampled on by the state. But there has to be […]
Update: see in the Comments a terrific contribution from Michael S who gives excellent background * * * * * Craig is back with us, this time sniping at the British Ambassador in Tashkent, Rupert Joy. What has Rupert Joy done wrong this time? Shock! He’s attended a fashion event led by […]
Last night I attended a dinner for current and former political activists. Some were long retired. One man told me how he had lived for the past 84 years in the house where he was born. I wonder if there is or has been anyone else in the UK who […]
The first presentation at TEDx Krakow last week was by Uwe and Gabriela von Seltmann. They told their story. Uwe (a German) had four grandfathers. The first two were both killed in WW2 and their respective widows both remarried. Grandfather One died an honourable soldier’s death fighting the Russians. Grandfather […]
Readers of this site usually have some interest in central Europe and/or the great battles of ideas which ‘Europe’ represents. One of those battles, perhaps the central battle in that it defines the intellectual space upon which all the others are fought, is the ‘comparison’ between Communism and Nazism, between […]
Do what I can to eschew sexism and to bring my daughter up as a civilised and thoughtful person, all roads seem inexorably to lead to this.
