Families are tricky. They stretch to outer limits our private sense of responsibility. You are Diligent. You work hard and honestly, you treat everyone fairly, you are generous towards friends and family, but you dislike being exploited or ‘expected’ to help others who don’t do all they can to help themselves. […]
More from me (if you can face it) over at Business and Politics. On Iran – who is weak and strong in the Negotiations between Iran/USA/Russia/China: It all boils down to a simple proposition: you don’t win more in any negotiation than your objective strength deserves. In a struggle between […]
Remember the Siege of Gondor in Lord of The Rings, when the defenders fall back from one defensive ring to the next as the wild armies of orcs crash through? Brian Micklethwait painstakingly looks at how the proponents of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) came to add Immediate and Catastrophic to the […]
Via Drudge, this piece at Big Journalism which claims that the evil excesses of certain Islamist fanatics known as the Af/Pak Haqqani terror network have prompted a violent backlash against them: As Siraj Haqqani moved from village to village, rounding up the sons of poor Muslim families to fight for […]
I have had an enquiry from someone who follows closely UK immigration issues asking about the policy issues surrounding the opening of the UK labour market to Poles in 2004 when Poland joined the EU: Did the UK government encourage mass Polish immigration into the UK? No. Well, not really. […]
Just to say that those readers who have not yet had a quick look at ADRg Ambassadors – a bespoke new senior mediation, consultancy and training panel comprising various former Ambassadors – should do so. Since our launch in January we have attracted some healthy interest, including from quite unexpected […]
Bishop Hill has been trying to post a climate comment on the Guardian‘s opinion site, CiF. But he is being ‘moderated’. In other words he is in a category of suspected comments offenders, which means that his comments may or may not be posted, once the ‘moderators’ have perused and […]
A good round-up from Michael Ledeen on the moves by the nervous Iran regime to curb protests: One of the most fascinating aspects of the current phase of the Iranian revolution is that many of those arrested knew it was coming, had the opportunity to hide, but chose to go […]
Time for a change in English libel laws. The core idea of the law is sound. If X tells untruths about Y and damages Y’s reputation, Y should have an action for damages against X. But the procedural, costs and other legal encrustations which have grown on this sensible idea […]
… why not have one who is lively, unconventional – and knows more about computers than even some teenagers? Someone who makes you think about the future, not the past. Who pours out ideas. And whose own website tops the global Google rankings for the word Unreasonable. Sounds good to […]
