… things are hotting up. This website supported by some Facebook activity is attacking Daphne Caruana Galizia in a, hem, rather personal way, . And she is hitting back: Your parents’ generation – perhaps even your parents themselves – created a culture of fear and intimidation in this country which […]
Last week I went to a preview of a new film called Storm. Here is a New York Times review which conveys the gist of it. The story centres on a Bosnia war crimes trial at the ICTY. A Bosnian Serb military officier is on trial, but the case against […]
Remember Brains from Thunderbirds? Thus: Such is the bountifulness of capitalism that you buy cool glasses like this (albeit alas not quite so pale blue) on Ebay. And (via Instapundit) a lucid explanation of the differences between Nerds, Dweebs, Dorks and Geeks.
Is belatedly hosted by Cabalamat of the Pirate Party UK. NHS Blog Doctor bites the dust. Socialist, feminist, deviant, reprobate, queer and so on Penny Red dislikes the government’s Digital Economy Bill: Across the West, governments are moving to restrict the access of their citizens to unpaid content on the […]
For all those of you rightly obsessed with Malta and Bosnia, let’s not forget that Poland has a Presidential election again this year. These happen every five years. A President may serve only two terms. So, question. Will President Lech Kaczynski win again? His first victory in 2005 came when […]
Is described by me here at RFE/RL: … two central questions have never been decisively answered. Did political reconciliation in post-World War II Yugoslavia depend on an implicit understanding that the horrible interethnic violence of World War II could be put to one side as long as minority communities in the […]
Welcome Iain Dale readers. * * * * * Am I missing something here, or is this beyond stupidity? Two German members of the supposedly liberal ALDE group in the European Parliament: We cannot leave it to private rating agencies to decide whether Europe is creditworthy. By lowering Greece’s creditworthiness […]
Here in the latest Standpoint magazine is an article by Joshua Rozenberg about Mediation and the new, excellent strategic dispute resolution service offered by ADRg Ambassadors. Alas the most interesting sections of the article about ADRg Ambassadors are not included in the online version. So to read them you’ll have […]
I think I have solved the problem of how best to elect a BH Presidency in a fair non-ethnic way. Walking the dawg through the mud of Oxfordshire has its uses. Two Options (Note – based on what might be acceptable to the main parties). Option One: Ethnicity Lite The […]
This is excellent. The amazing Bosnian newspaper Dnevni Avaz has a World Scoop. A letter from Prime Minister John Major to FCO Minister of State Douglas Hogg – in Bosnian! Check it out. The letter (facsimile of an official (sic) translation of Major’s letter) is dated 2 May 1993. The […]
