Imagine you run a toyshop. You have to sell a consignment of ‘white’ Barbie dolls and ‘black’ Barbie dolls. Should you price them at the same rate under all circumstances to show that all races are equal? Does selling the black one at a cheaper price send a bad racial signal? […]
Is one argument against using unmanned predators to attack enemy targets that they are just too accurate? How about this other one: if eg the USA does not have to go through battle processes by putting troops in danger on the ground as in medievel times, that is either unfair or makes […]
Under the Lisbon Treaty the European Union has a new External Action Service, led by Baroness Ashton. And as expected, it is struggling to trundle out of the hangar and get on the runway. The main issue in the arguments over setting up the EAS is not all about how […]
Sarajevo’s Dnevni Avaz reports that the Bosniac member of the three-person Bosnian collective state Presidency, Haris Silajdzic, is travelling to London to visit Ejup Ganic tomorrow – presumably in jail. The office of the Serb member of the Presidency Nebojsa Radmanovic mournfully complains that he still has not been informed. […]
Is hosted by Mr Eugenides. Linking to a lot of UK political stuff, plus this good piece about how the proliferation of new media outlets create closed sub-cultures: The internet is an extension of the telephone network, and as such it’s a two-way communication medium rather than a one-way broadcast medium. […]
A fine article at Devil’s Kitchen reminding us how New Zealand slashed socialism in a series of bold, strong moves (emphasis added): It cost us twice as much to get a poorer result than we did 20 years previously with much less money. So we decided to rethink what we […]
A reader argues that I am underestimating the impact of Fox News in the USA: Thus the numbers of people ‘reached’ in America are not the paltry 2.8 million you purport, but rather 80% of the total viewership for the day, 18,166,000, (again ridiculous, 20% of 18 million people did […]
A bracing visionary view at Edge of how the Internet is transforming everything, by David Gelernter. Interesting intro: Take a look at the photos from the recent Edge annual dinner and you will find the people who are re-writing global culture, and also changing your business, and, your head. What […]
Simon Heffer ponders the decline of the Obama Administration’s credibility, arguing in part thus: "Obama’s big problem," a senior Democrat told me, "is that four times as many people watch Fox News as watch CNN." The Fox network is a remarkable cultural phenomenon which almost shocks those of us from […]
Here is what looks like the original British Arrest Warrant for Ejup Ganic (click on the Arrest Warrant.jpg link) It contains a seeming serious error (emphasis added), saying that Ganic is accused in a category 2 territory, namely Serbia of the commission of an offence the conduct of which occurred in that […]
