The more the government tries to change our behaviour to address ‘climate change’, the less the UK public incline to believe them. Funny, that. It of course all depends on the precise questions being asked. Does human activity have an impact on the planet? Of course. Is it easy to […]
When it comes down to it, what is a Blog? Not much more than personal musings, often with links to other websites which in one way or the other serve to reinforce the point one is trying to make. Some sites aim higher – to become places where intelligent people […]
Via Drudge: Swine flu causes surge of garlic sales in Serbia As indeed it does.
The ever-busy International Crisis Group have written quite a good paper about the current Bosnia and Herzegovina interlocking impasses (so to speak). Here it is. One point of interest. Back at Harvard in 1998 I wrote a long paper about the Dayton Peace Process which posed a challenging question: is […]
Welcome Iain Dale readers Update: A good piece in the Guardian by Simon Jenkins on the wider politics of all this. Max Atkinson suggests (see Comments below) that the Sun‘s use of this story is ‘fishy’. So what if it is? Labour have enjoyed the Sun’s vivid support for many […]
Back from Berlin. Maybe I was in the wrong place on the night, but there seemed to be a remarkable number of road-blocks near the Brandenburg Gates to keep the public well back from the assembled global VIPs. By which I mean hundreds of yards away. A curious and depressingly […]
Here is the BBC giving some background on how and why the Berlin Wall came down. See what Mr Gorbachev says about the moment he heard what was happening: Mr Gorbachev chuckled as he remembered the rush to tell him what had happened. "They reported to me quite early in […]
Is here. Including a wearying rant by Penny Red (socialist, feminist, deviant, reprobate, queer, journalist, aspiring author, freelance copywriter and sometime blogger) about women and their unending (it seems) bodily misery. Lighten up, Penny. At least you’re unlikely (for the time being) to get stoned in the UK merely for […]
Some key points about the scramble for the top EU jobs which you will not read about in the media. The Lisbon Treaty creates two new roles: President of the European Council (‘President of Europe’); and High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy (‘EU Foreign Minister’). But with these jobs […]
A businesslike piece by Ilya Somin about the scale of Communist crimes – and why we must not forget them. It’s the sheer scale of the cruelty which we normally fail to grasp. Cuba? Great health care! Unless you’re murdered by the state: Since coming to power in 1959, Castro’s […]
