Remember the Archbishop’s Tale? That was the peerless work of someone far far away called Iowahawk. Now he’s back, as ever on the subject of Holy Men. In this case two distinguished US politicians-cum-vicars, Al Gore and John Edwards, whose capacity for loudly pursuing righteous causes is exceeded only by the scale […]
Former British Ambassador Oliver Miles is on a roll in the Guardian. After giving Ambassadorial blogs the thrashing they so richly deserve, he now writes with eloquence and good sense about what Ambassadors actually do: When I worked in Belfast, I was warned by a home civil service colleague not […]
Not much. Various more or less unsatisfactory inquiries and analyses have been done. Nothing too bad or egregious to report, they say. Move along, folks! Back to mass collectivist action to run down civilisation – according to Green Rules. Clive Crook likes the idea of acting to mitigate the risk […]
At long last we are starting to be honest about the national indebtedness issues we face: The true scale of Britain’s national indebtedness was laid bare by the Office for National Statistics yesterday: almost £4 trillion, or £4,000bn, about four times higher than previously acknowledged. It quantifies the burden that […]
Have a quick look at this latest example of junk diplomacy, hard at work with our money: The exhibition “Climate Faces — Changing Earth, Changing Lives”, now on display in the Main Gallery of the Visitors Lobby of United Nations Headquarters, will be opened formally in a 6 p.m. ceremony […]
As his ratings and credibility slip-slide away, President Obama eyes the various US election races later this year. Will the Democrats do terribly? Or merely awfully? One plan he has – maybe the only plan he has – is to blame everything bad on the previous Bush presidency. Hence his […]
Over at Business and Politics I brood on the dismal sniggering by UK business people when the Prime Minister informed them that he had summoned the UK’s Ambassadors back to London – and made them all fly economy class. Inappropriate. If you publicly sneer at your own team, won’t everyone […]
Crawf Minor (Lower Sixth) is in hot pursuit of several Maths A-Levels here in the UK. All of which reminds me that once upon a long lost time I could pick my way through the mysteries of cos and sin and even on a good day tan. Not to forget […]
You may feel that your modest daily needs concerning the exotic world of Diplomacy are met by this website, and you usually may be right. Still, now and again a little more of what you fancy does you good. So go and have a look at the Browser, where they have been […]
As previously mentioned, the Total Politics political blog annual popularity poll comes round again. All you have to do is send in an email listing at least five of your favourite UK political blogs. Voting closes at the end of July. And if you kindly include this one on your […]
