Anna Raccoon explains why she is stopping blogging – in good part because of the obnoxiousness of other bloggers and blog readers: … the world of blogging is fuelled by petty jealousies, vitriol, feuds, unsubstantiated allegations, apostrophe police, and a whole host of people who in another age would have been […]
The European Parliament is the greatest place on earth for practising the highest arts of fast and accurate interpreting: hundreds of interpreters are on hand when the Parliament is sitting to help get the 23 official languages each translated as necessary into any one of 22 other languages. Sometimes a […]
Leaving aside possible criminal charges involving attempts to avoid FOI requests, there are all sorts of legal options in the UK and US alike for people wanting to challenge the way public funds have been invested in academic work on Climate Change which (it seems) fails to meet respectable standards […]
Prompted by the story of how (not) to reward effort, a reader tells us another story: This is a truly massive failure called the American healthcare system. Dreamt up by laissez faire Capitalists over sixty years ago, the American healthcare system costs twice as much as the NHS whilst leaving […]
And now, a new UK enquiry into the history of the Iraq intervention. Craig Murray is rude about the Chilcot enquiry team, including my former boss Rod Lyne. I myself find it hard to understand why an official who had a senior job in selling UK policy during this period has […]
A reader points me to a piece from New Zealand which looks at claims that New Zealand is ‘warming’ – and argues that they are just not true, if data going back 150 years are anything to go by. So what’s happening with that data? Are NZ data inconsistencies and the […]
Is the true issue about all those leaked climate emails that the underlying data sets used to make far-reaching UN and other climate predictions are so badly done that they are unable to withstand intelligent expert scrutiny? And that that’s why the scientists concerned were worried about FOI requests and other […]
Welcome Iain Dale readers My former FCO lawyer colleague Dominic Raab has stormed home to win the Conservative Party nomination for the Esher and Walton parliamentary constituency, after securing a strong win in the constituency’s ‘open primary’ when any member of the public could come along to choose a candidate […]
A Polish friend sends me this: An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had once failed an entire class. That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would […]
President Obama’s sagging ratings are causing many people to wonder what is going on. Mark Steyn of course is no fan of the President bowing to kings and emperors, and calls the President the Superbower: Along with his choreographic gaucherie goes his peculiar belief that all of human history is […]
