Here in full gush is our friend Johann Hari, this time bewailing the end of democracy in the USA: For more than a century, the US has slowly put some limits – too few, too feeble – on how much corporations can bribe, bully or intimidate politicians. On Tuesday, they […]
Noting this in passing I was struck by the title of the video link: Nick Gillespie pwns Blond Health Nazi What on earth is pwns? This. Which takes one to the anarchic future of the English language, and maybe of others too. From English Lit to English Leet. The tragedy […]
A friendly reader asks: Thank you for producing such a thought-provoking and readable blog. I thought you may be interested in this link to a press release from the Swedish MFA. They plan to close 6 Posts and open 10. https://www.sweden.gov.se/sb/d/12653/a/138250 Several of these post closures are in the EU. […]
Anguished as he is by his belated discovery that FCO Legal Adviser Michael Wood had not ‘stabbed him in the back’ as per the foolish description in his book, Craig Murray slumps back into despair: I felt that Michael had stabbed me in the back by refusing to back me […]
All eyes on Tony Blair, now giving evidence. A further couple of observations on the deep legal angles, drawing on my own conversations with someone very close to all this. First, the legal arguments finally used by the Attorney General to justify the intervention (drawing on the implicit and explicit […]
We’ve created a world in which a 37-year-old Italian male can stroll into a singles bar, tell the chicks he lives at his mum and dad’s place in the same bedroom he’s slept in since he was in grade school—and he can still walk out with a hot-looking babe. This […]
Headlines pouring out over what Sir Michael Wood said this morning to the Chilcot Inquiry: Straw rejected advice that Iraq invasion was ‘unlawful’ Let me give you my potted view of this as a lawyer by training but not practice. The various FCO and other documents (some formerly SECRET) now […]
Adam Jasser (Polish, Reuters journalist-turned-pundit, good egg) argues that the grim problems besetting Greece and its public finances could lead to the Eurozone getting even stronger: The argument goes that a default would require Greece to leave the euro zone and increase pressure on other peripherals such as Spain or Portugal. […]
One of the pleasures of writing this website is that new e-friends appear, usually people who know all sorts of things I don’t know. Thus I am pleased to share with you this interesting contribution about Google/China and US/Switzerland as sent to me from a reader who closely follows IT security questions and […]
Craig Murray’s vanity knows no bounds. His ‘story’ is soon to be dramatised on the BBC! If I can bear to listen I’ll do so and give you a full and fair review. Meanwhile he launches another misguided missile at the role of the government’s Law Officers. He appears to […]
