Here is a link I have been sent to a site extolling the benefits of therapeutic writing – writing as a tool to deal with stress, trauma and frustration in your own life. There are no fewer than 52 hot writing tips. Such as No 8: Chuck the rules of […]
A day with my nose press’d hard against the perspiring computer screen writing scenarios for a new course which I lead later this month, all about Ethical Dilemmas in Diplomacy. As far as I know this is a pioneer course, the first of its kind to be taught to professional […]
A Polish reader Ludwik Kowalski now long established in the USA has sent in a link to this unusual free online memoir, namely extracts from his diaries which he wrote while growing up in the USSR then Stalinist Poland: This is my “book of life.” It is based on what I […]
Could nimble French banks be getting bailed out in effect at Germany’s expense, by playing the way the French-led European Central Bank helps Greece? That would be perfide indeed, and at a very high level of betrayal. Surely not.
Maybe it all gets just too complicated. Too many things go wrong at the same time. The capacity of the world’s leaders and institutions to respond in a coherent and authoritative way on several huge problems at the same time ebbs away. This opens the way for calculated lunges by different regional […]
How does the Obama administration’s response to the BP oil-leak crisis look as seen from the viewpoint of someone who has walked on the moon – and so understands the limits of technology? Not too good: The response after an oxygen tank explosion in the Apollo 13 spacecraft on its […]
How to ‘explain’ the shootings in Cumbria? Jeremy Seabrook in the Guardian helpfully shows why he is inexplicable: The second thing is, in our desire to explain these events solely as examples of personal pathology, we concentrate on the individual, and do not interrogate the role of society and a […]
The so-called Queen of the White House press corps Helen Thomas has disgraced herself by calling for ethnic cleansing of Jews from Israel. Is it my imagination, or are Helen Thomas and the Evil Witch in Snow White by some chance related? I report. You decide.
Come on, readers, wherever you may be on the planet, but esp in the UK. We urgently need a networked generosity swarm effect here. Time to chip in for a good cause. Update: many thanks to those who have pledged a little something to Elly. As Instapundit says, Faster please
Another superb piece by Adam Thierer at Technology Liberation Front, this time looking at a new book which is making a big impact: The Shallows, by Nicholas Carr: The general Carr argument is that the immediacy of unlimited communication actually changes the way we think, to the extent of affecting […]
