Driving down the M40 to visit my elderly mother today for Mother’s Day, there was a sudden whooshing sound and dazzling lights as my car was swept into hyperspace (a bit like that extended cosmic Star Gate sequence in 2001: A Space Odyssey.) Or maybe it was a traffic jam, and I […]
Oh dear. I have achieved media prominence of a sort in Malta today, becoming a leading story in the Malta Star. This publication does not like the current Malta government. Its article boldly asserts that I am the Maltese Prime Minister’s new ‘Spin Doctor’, brought in to help the PM ‘deal with […]
Always a pleasure to post a comment on Craig Murray’s site. His readers are so smart and droll in reply, giving excellent material for my rotating What The Critics Say box: Having visited your blog i must say it doesnt surprise me. Your self-aggrandising careerist pomposity is quite breathtaking […]
Once upon a time I was honoured to be noticed by the great Instapundit. Readership shoots up fleetingly if the Professor links to you on his site, as his readers run into the hundreds of thousands. Ditto Guido. An Iain Dale link too is much prized. But to get a […]
RFE/RL is an excellent resource for all sorts of detail about what is happening in the former Soviet Union. See especially The Power Vertical, a blog written especially for Russia wonks and obsessive Kremlin watchers. Try these pieces: One about new popular protests against price rises and corruption (even if […]
You’re a great leader. You make speeches. In our Tower of Babel world, is it better to keep hammering away on the same themes (and often using the same words and phrases) to get your message across? Maybe. But don’t overdo the clichés. Or people will start listening to you […]
Former Bosnia Presidency member Ejup Ganic has been released on bail, albeit subject to some strict conditions. Serbia has to continue mustering evidence for the process to move forward. In the end current BH Bosniac Presidency member Haris Silajdzic did not visit him in jail, but instead remonstrated with David […]
Here’s a handy list of outlandish racist statements. Can you guess which fine people made them? Thus: These Negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve […]
Over at Business and Politics. Thus: Remember the Bible parable of the Prodigal Son? He squandered his fortune but saw the error of his ways and crept back home. He was warmly welcomed by his father, who explained the significance of his repentance to an older brother unimpressed by the […]
Nick Hogan has been released, in an interesting example of Blogger Power (of sorts). Anna Raccoon helped lead the charge – well done her and Old Holborn. Some of the detail on the case as they report it is striking. I don’t smoke and don’t like being in smoke-filled places. […]
