My posting below on the WTD has prompted some feisty comments. Alas (or happily) my new Intense Debate Comments mode will not allow overlong comments. So here is my latest refinement in response to reader Norman Fraser: Apology duly accepted. Plus it is all about a blog posting drawing on […]
As I foretold back in February with unerring accuracy, the ghastly EU Working Time Directive is now said to have caused deaths in UK hospitals: The Royal College of Surgeons said, in a hard-hitting report, that lives were being lost because patients had to be switched between up to four doctors […]
This is interesting, exploring the US Law Library of Congress analysis on the goings-on in Honduras: In other words, far from fitting the administration’s description as a “coup d’état,” the report paints Zelaya’s removal as remarkably orderly and legalistic, especially in a region where the rule of law is so tenuous. […]
We have not tried this before. But I have been asked to help Alisa. She is at Sarajevo University and has a serious medical problem. She has been advised to begin therapy immediately. But: Although this medication is covered by the Bosnian authorities through their solidarity fund into which, as you know, […]
Another part of my foraging for witty things to say about Diplomacy has involved exploring this magnificent official FCO tract from 1965: Restricted Guidance to Diplomatic Service and other Officers, and Wives or some "do’s" and "don’ts" of Diplomatic Etiquette and other relevant matters Almost every page is a time-machine […]
Off to Paris tomorrow to give a presentation to a distinguished group of people about Diplomacy. Meandering around the Internet for inspiration I started looking at the fine story of one of the greatest ever Ambassadors, Thomas Jefferson, who represented the newly emerging USA in Paris in the years leading […]
One of the typical BBC-style clever retorts to those who say that our language is not declining goes thus: Languages evolve, as we all know. They have to. Duh. English now is far removed from the language of Henry I. If technology and texting and the rest are causing English […]
Craig Murray has a good posting on the important interview between Iain Dale and Michal Kaminski. It just shows where things now stand when a mere Blogger does what no so-called serious MSM journalist has done, and talks to the person at the centre of a controversy to hear what […]
Here is a post by Bloggers Circle member Bracknell Blog complaining in not altogether coherent terms about the fact that an England national team World Cup qualifier football match is be available to a wider audience only by a pay-to-view Internet service: So why is this not being reported as […]
Here is the citation for President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize. One line stands out: His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world’s population. Huh? […]
