Part of Conservatism is respect for Tradition and Continuity. Which is fine, but sits uneasily with the whirlwind of innovation today, which turns even our most cherished ways upside-down. Disruptive technologies and all that. For example.
Part of Conservatism is respect for Tradition and Continuity. Which is fine, but sits uneasily with the whirlwind of innovation today, which turns even our most cherished ways upside-down. Disruptive technologies and all that. For example.
Luckily for us, Daniel Simpson has been lucky enough to get the full transcript of a Nobel Prize acceptance speech which President Obama won’t deliver. It is well worth reading this Top Secret text, as it elegantly describes in Obama-style language a parallel universe which might exist but does not […]
…a post that demonstrates the real power of the blogosphere, in which the sharpest insights are not to be found in the highest profile blogs but the ones just bubbling underneath. Charles has an excellent piece on how the inner inner ring of the British establishment is now punishing Tony […]
How one envies those few people whose blogs get mass readership and a steady flow of comments. All that work – for something! As 2009 ends I look back on the blogging year with bemused satisfaction. The number of Unique Visitors climbed steadily up until May (from small to not-quite-so-small) […]
At Philobiblon. Always feminist. Which takes one to intense and dense analysis of something I’d not heard of before, namely lazy transphobic cis feminism. Eeek. Wikipedia helps on Cisgender, but not much: Cisgender is a neologism that means "someone who is comfortable in the gender they were assigned at birth" […]
Since Classic Communism (more or less) ended nearly twenty years ago, which country has done better, China or Russia? And why? Big Questions Big answers.
Welcome Iain Dale readers Just to add that if you don’t have time to go back to that early 2008 posting of mine, do take a couple of minutes to read Isaac Asimov’s peerless The Last Question. Way back in 1956 it still says all that needs to be said on […]
One of the most doom-laden assertions from the Climate Change tendency is that said Climate Change causes mass conflict. See here for a classic noisy example: genocide in Darfur was caused ‘at least in part’ by Climate Change. But even the Guardian strikes a note of caution. As do the ICG: […]
On US blogs I keep seeing the word rube appear. As here: For all the talk of Sarah Palin being a rube, just a backward waif from Wasilla, Alaska, few seem to appreciate that she, more than any other rumored 2012 Republican nominee, has mastered the cutting edge art of […]
The Summit starts. Has the hacking/leaking of all those mails made any difference? Some pro-Summit people are saying that it must have been done ‘deliberately’ to try to mess up the Summit. By … sinister music … the Russians? Yet that argument makes sense only if it assumes that the material […]
