A reader says nice things about my long posting on the Copenhagen Negotiating Disaster (for the EU at least) but also asks a terrific question: A remarkable piece of analysis, Charles, with fascinating insights for the outsider. I detect a theme emerging in your posts – a sort of neo-realpolitik […]
Remember drippy Comparative Politics? Now with added EU! New EU High Representative Baroness Ashton: The EU is now in a position to assume a "stronger, more credible role in the world," the nominee for the EU’s top foreign policy post says… Aargh. Who drafts this lame stuff for her? This person? […]
Is deftly hosted by Liberal England. Look out for a Besomy Bletherer’s views on the lost art of Thankyou Letters. And more suppression of free speech, this time connected with the University of Liverpool. Not easy to follow what is happening if you are not following what is happening, but […]
A very powerful piece in the Guardian/Observer (yes!) decribing the grisly fate of official useful idiot Malcolm Caldwell, whose banal self-delusion about communist crimes led to his banal murder in Pol Pot’s Cambodia. But this is astounding – can it really be true? The UN-supported court (ECCC) investigating communist crimes […]
A reader takes issue with me on my analysis of Georgian Chess Moves: All these moves and counter moves are more or less based on the stupid theories inside the textbooks of International Relations and Political Science. There is no deep knowledge in these textbooks, just insipid informations and postulates. […]
Who does not remember that back in 2005 the witty literati on the Blair team at No 10 affectionately used to call Chancellor Gordon Brown Mrs Rochester, in honour of his wild shrieks from the Whitehall attic against the emerging EU Budget deal, under which the UK surrendered part of its […]
Former Ambassador Craig Murray and I do not always agree, although since he has wandered away from the idea of our having a public debate I can not identify where our views really do overlap, or not. But now and again he nails down a basic policy point with verve […]
One of the amusing Criminal Law undergraduate questions in Jurisprudence centres on the law of mistakes. Suppose it is a rainy night, and I am in a restaurant without my umbrella which I lost the other week. After paying my bill I decide to chance it. I shiftily look around […]
David Aaronovitch writes eloquently about what he sees as the hypocrisy of all sorts of people who deny gayness in Africa (and elsewhere): …are there no gays in Malawi or Uganda and have there been none, in any significant sense, throughout African history? Is it just now, as a product […]
At least that’s what Le Monde seems to think about Guido, our scepter’d isle’s number one political blogger: Paul Staines, conservateur barbare. Language alert – it’s in French, zut, so brush the dust of that O-Level and get stuck in. Or use Google Translator, or something.
