As the English football season culminates in a number of all-or-nothing matches, the Mighty Spurs are chasing hard for fourth place and Champion’s League football next season for the first time. So it’s worth remembering what football is really about. Disappointment. Most teams are losers. Necessarily. As I wrote back in […]
Another sober, measured, fair-minded analysis by me of the way Government has tried to emulate Business for two decades. And failed: It all started back with Mrs Thatcher, who took the view that the Civil Service was full of stuffy, stodgy wets who needed to be a lot more businesslike. […]
Just to say that I’ll be joining Nick Ferrari and Iain Dale and a Band of Bloggers/pundits live on air from midnight to 6am on LBC as the UK election results gush in. Who needs sleep when the Brownian Socialist Behemoth topples over? Iain links to this appallingly funny punch on […]
What with one thing and another April has been a bumper month for readers by my relatively modest standards: nearly 13,000 Unique Visitors recorded and still a few hours to go. Especially pleasing is that some 3000 visits have stayed around here for up to an hour – or more. Today […]
Ian Bancroft’s articles on the Balkans are always interesting and perceptive, not that I always agree with them. See eg this one about Bosnia, as previously linked. Yet something has been gnawing away in my mind about the picture of Ian which the Guardian uses. Yes. Got it! Are he and Kraftwerk […]
It’s always good to mention Malta on this website, as everyone in Malta then comes here to remonstrate in one direction or the other and my ratings shoot up. I happened upon Daphne Caruana Galizia’s site when I visited Malta only because someone there mentioned it. It turns out that […]
The Heresiarch links to my thoughts on the FCO and its Popegate scandal, but wonders if I have it right – maybe the causes are … even deeper: It’s easy enough to blame New Labour, with its love of targets and hatred of anything traditional or elitist, for this sort […]
I earlier this month mused about suing Malta under European human rights law for the local media’s dismal inability to acknowledge polite requests from me to set the record straight on wild claims about me in some Malta newspapers and websites. Malta lawyer Etienne Caleja lays it on the line: Well, […]
So there I was yesterday having a deft lamb chop in the Beefsteak Club, a men-only refuge from political correctness where the noble ideas of Beef and Liberty are still champion’d. The form here is one long dining table where all Club members sit and talk. And what conversation. At […]
My earlier piece on Football Fascism over at Business and Politics caught quite a lot of attention. So, here is some more, exporing the strange collectivism of Michel Platini: “I am not a financier, but I have a financial philosophy, which is that you cannot spend more than you generate…” Zut. What […]
