I am rummaging around on the Internet for material on why international organisations are so ineffective. I suspect it’s all to do with the Square/Cube law, identified by Galileo. See here: Doubling the length of the sides of the square creates an area four times the size. The effect is greater […]
Is deftly hosted by Natalie Bennett. Various points of interest, including a list of feminist bloggers missing from the ‘blokeosphere’ lists of leading bloggers exemplified by the Total Politics surveys. Hey, women bloggers, there’s nothing stopping your blogs being put forward into these surveys and asking readers to vote for […]
One of the key rules followed as closely as possible by the British Royal family is to be photographed as rarely as possible eating or drinking (especially eating). Why? Because it’s next to impossible to look dignified when eating. The more so when knives and forks are unavailable – or […]
A powerful essay by Angelo Codevilla looking closely at the dominant ruling class in the USA: Who are these rulers, and by what right do they rule? How did America change from a place where people could expect to live without bowing to privileged classes to one in which, at […]
According to the Total Politics list I have shot up from a scrawny 196th place (2009) in the UK Top 300 Political Blogs to a not-so-scrawny 93rd place (2010). Yay. To add to my frabjous joy, I have overtaken Craig Murray whose appeal has definitely waned – down from 95th […]
The 2010 UK Speechwriters’ Guild conference took place yesterday in beamish Bournemouth. To fine effect. Tobias Ellwood MP purposefully kicked off, closely followed by my own attempt to share some of the operational problems Leaders and their speechwriters face in working out how best to respond to Bad News (examples […]
Over at Business and Politics is my nob unsuccessful attempt to bring trendy retail chain Joe Browns to explain why they think it is OK to sell clothes with communist images. They do try to wriggle out of a tight corner, and seem to accept that Che committed atrocities: The […]
The insults fly thick and fast as ever: Michelle Muscat: a thick layer of foundation not matched to her skin tone is what every girl needs if she’s in Manchester or Malta Why is this voluntary initiative being organised through a political party, with parents stupid enough to send their […]
Off I go soon to address tomorrow this year’s Speechwriters Guild conference in Bournemouth, the theme being all about how leaders deliver good news and bad. Haha, some leaders ARE the bad news, as Gordon Brown found out to his cost. See also the results of the latest elections in the […]
Great piece here about the way the Tea Party in the USA is now a formidable voting tendency, based on mass decentralised networked commitment: Radically decentralized networks — everything from illicit music-sharing systems to Wikipedia — can direct resources and adapt ("mutate") far faster than corporations can. "The absence of […]
