Some of you may have read my paper on the idea of Amazon Space. If not, please do so. The simple idea is that in a world divided between large areas of lawfulness and diminishing but significant spaces defined by their unlawfulness, new doctrines are needed for protecting the networks […]
Here from euobserver is a detailed account of the goings-on behind the EU scenes, as everyone tries to work out how the new EU External Action Service will be structured. And who will get which jobs, since that will have a huge influence on the way it all works (or […]
Here via a reader is a neat glimpse at how every ten years for a hundred years the world has changed in quite unexpected new directions. Have a look. It brings out just how difficult it is to be ‘strategic’. The more so when there is a whirring positive feedback […]
The tumultuous launch of ADRg Ambassadors gives way to a requirement to write an article for DIPLOMAT magazine about Diplomats and Mediation. One interesting theme is ‘neutrality’. Is it possible for any international mediator in a dispute or problem to be truly impartial, and does it matter if that is […]
European Voice looks at the humiliation of the Eurozone if Greece has to go to the IMF for help with its uneconomic economy, and the different schemes being cooked up by other EU members to try to manage the problem: There is mounting concern in Frankfurt, Brussels and in other eurozone […]
This week’s Britblog Roundup is hosted by Matt Wardman. Will we accept household electricity bills of £5000 per year? No. And a link to a gushy piece about a new economic model, which seems to mean stifling innovation to get the wonders of a ‘steady-state economy’: For example: if you […]
Mark Steyn has it: Whenever aspiring writers ask me for advice, I usually tell ’em this: Don’t just write there, do something. Learn how to shingle a roof, or tap-dance, or raise sled dogs. Because if you don’t do anything, you wind up like Obama and Fineman – men for […]
A most satisfactory and philosophically interesting week in the United States. The startling Scott Brown victory in the Massachusetts election for the ex-Kennedy seat in the US Senate has prompted an avalanche of analysis. Obviously it was an unqualified calamity for the Democrats. But what conclusions do Democrats and Republicans alike […]
Somehow my site has been linked to by this one: the New Shelton wet/dry. Namely my posting How to Start a Speech. Check it out. It probably makes sense to people who read it regularly. It has all sorts of quirky and interesting material, such as this nice link to the […]
