My earlier piece on Hamas and the ‘cloned’ passports has been picked up by Spy Blog, who watches like a hawk everything to do with UK government surveillance and other technologies. He adds some useful expert points on just how difficult it is to come up with any foolproof scheme […]
There are different sorts of bloggers. Apart from all those who write honestly and well about Cats or Cars or Cooking or somesuch, there are those of us who attempt to tackle wider themes. And we fall into two general categories: 1 Those who press their points home by unrelenting […]
The UK Labour Party are said to be doing rather better in the opinion polls. Crikey. I am baffled that anyone at all would still vote for them. What does it take these days in terms of incompetence to be 100% discredited and thrown down the steps of public opinion? […]
Via The Browser an excellent account by Stephen Levy at Wired on how Google just keeps getting better. By using Google itself: Google also has a larger army of testers — its billions of users, virtually all of whom are unwittingly participating in its constant quality experiments. Every time engineers […]
Yesterday in London I was on the stage at the Polish Cultural Centre in West London for a discussion about Solidarity – Thirty Years After. Others on the panel were Wladyslaw Frasyniuk (former top Solidarity activist and former political prisoner turned politician) – someone whose lively intelligence has left him […]
I am heading to Malta, looking for work. My first visit to the island, which has even more history per square metre than Poland. Be there. Or be square.
John Mauldin of Thoughts from the Frontline writes a powerful weekly email on economic and investment themes to which one million people have subscribed. As have I. Because it is free. His latest one is superb, disentangling different expert pessimistic and not-so-pessimistic analyses about the problems of the Eurozone, Greece […]
Update: Welcome Iain Dale readers * * * * * Former warrior-diplomat Al Haig has died, aged 85. The obituaries are noting his unique contribution to the English language: The Washington Post’s George F. Will called him as “an aerobic instructor for the English language, making it twist and stretch.” […]
I was down at Guidhall in the City yesterday, to watch the special ceremony of Poland’s excellent Ambassador Barbara Tuge-Erecinksa being accepted as a Freeman of the City. Barbara was deeply involved in the Gdansk Shipyard protests and the heroic rise of the Solidarity movement: Active in the underground during the martial […]
For those who have not seen it, here is how the USA’s ‘Tea Party’ political gamechanging grassroots protests against Big Government started a year ago:
