Remember ADRg Ambassadors, a unique new British mediation and consultancy panel launched earlier this year? We are whirring away to excellent effect. Yesterday we were in Geneva giving a goodly number of international organisations some ‘taster’ training sessions to show the ADRg Ambassadors house-style, with a special focus this time […]
Here is my latest piece at Business and Politics about Tony Blair’s visit to Bosnia in 1997. Scoop! Some never-before revealed detail! Oh, and some thoughts on Emotion in Politics…
Lawks. Here is Iowahawk writing to President Obama about the cooling off of their relationship: Look, let’s be civil adults and not let this descend into yelling. It’s really not you, it’s me. We both know you deserve a better democracy than me. I mean, let’s face it – you’re cool and urbane […]
BBRU 280 is up at Redemption Blues. The host, Chameleon, loves to take these blog links on their merits (and, yes, many of them do have merits!) and mull over the ideas they prompt. Plus she has this excellent passage on the idea that we have too many consumerist ‘choices’: […]
Just to alert my sprawling army of fans that I have a couple of notable public speaking engagements coming up. First, I open the proceedings for the Speechwriters Guild Leadership and Communication conference in Bournemouth on 17 September. Here’s the website – come along and hear a range of top-end […]
Does Science prove or at least entail the unexistence of God(s)? Graham Farmello elegantly points out that they are all about different things: God did not create the universe, Stephen Hawking revealed yesterday. In the flurry of publicity preceding his new book, The Grand Design, to be published next week, […]
That EU financial crisis – is it about sovereign debts owed by individual countries, or the credibility of banks elsewhere which prop up that debt? – rumbles on. Take Greece: Greece is undergoing what amounts to an IMF austerity package but without the IMF cure of debt restructuring or devaluation […]
Remember the EU’s financial crisis which threatened to bring down the Eurozone a few months ago? No. Anyway, according to Baseline Scenario it is still waiting to pounce, this time on Ireland which is often held up as the right way to deal with Eurozone member states’ debt problems: The […]
An interesting piece at NRO which reviews a new book by Robert Reilly, The Closing of the Muslim Mind. It traces features of Islam (and indeed Christianity) back to the very deepest roots, namely core assumptions about God’s nature laid down centuries ago: While Christianity recognizes the possibility of miracles, when […]
In Las Vegas later this month and looking for something cool to do away from the casinos? This could be interesting.
