My recent posting on Carousel Fraud and Climate Change was picked up by Devil’s Kitchen and led to a flurry of hits. So now for dessert, the Blogosphere’s first CFRU: Carousel Fraud Round-up. Remind us, how does it all work again? Crooks set up an arrangement for […]
Remember the Sharpeville Six? They were six South Africans convicted of the murder of a local township leader who ‘collaborated’ with the apartheid regime. Their case became an international symbol of the anti-apartheid struggle. What happened? In early September 1984 in Sharpeville (south of Johannesburg) township protesters angered at rent rises converged upon the house of […]
Most readers will not be avid enough chess fans, I suspect. And so you may have missed the famous Karpov v Kasparov game from the 1985 World Championship match, when Kasparov’s knight metamorphed into a vast octopus (as Ray Keene put it) on Karpov’s d3 square and throttled Karpov’s position with […]
As readers of this website know only too well, the Kosovo case is fascinating and stunningly difficult on multiple levels simultaneously. Political, moral, precedental, timescale, ethnic, existential. The territory of Kosovo itself is smallish by international standards, ranking at 168th out of 249 countries listed in the CIA World Factbook – […]
More on European Foreign Policy – and Physics (or maybe Maths). Take two tennis balls, A and B. A is twice the size of B. By which I mean that the diameter of A is twice the diameter length (the straight line across the widest part of the inside of the ball) of […]
Remember carousel fraud? Those scams operating on such vast scales that everyone … looks away? Bearing in mind, of course, that this is not money held back in the grey economy by people not declaring tax, but rather money looted from the public purse from tax money already paid in. […]
John Derbyshire is a National Review pro-Israel conservative. So deal with it. He also is closely interested in maths and science issues and their accompanying civilisational aspects. He gets off to a brisk start: … we all do trust science. We trust Bernoulli’s Principle every time we get on a plane; […]
Anna Raccoon has stopped blogging for a while but her site continues under guest supervision and is keeping up Anna’s brisk pace. But if you are interested in the dark underbelly of blogging – and who is not? – check out this posting over at Constantly Furious and the ensuing brawling […]
The Advisory Opinion hearings at the International Court of Justice on the Serbia/Kosovo question have started. The curious thing about this one is the actual question which the ICJ is tasked by the UN General Assembly to address: Is the unilateral declaration of independence by the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government […]
The Times leader on President Sarkozy’s insistence that the ‘European’ economic model must now prevail over the ‘Anglo-Saxon’ model: This is economically illiterate populism. No policymaker in the English-speaking economies believes in totally unconstrained and unregulated capitalism. You need to go to some fairly obscure corners to find anyone at […]
