Have the Obama Administration kissed goodbye to some key Western values at the UN to placate global Islamists? Anne Bajevsky says "Hell, yes". A less angry but still concerned view here at Volokh Conspiracy: The resolution generally seems to be an attempt to urge more protection for free speech throughout the […]
Just back from manoeuvres in Liverpool, addressing this years’s Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference (the gathering of leading public schools, primarily for boys) most ably led this year by Andrew Grant from my old school. My zany theme was Why Stupidity Should Be Taught In Schools, a subject on which I felt […]
If you bang on and on about something anonymously and unwisely on someone’s website, maybe that person will start trying to find out who you are. Then it just gets really embarrassing.
Is now posted, hosted by Amused Cynicism. Several links re the Polanski Affair – none too impressed by him. And a perhaps rather over-schematic posting by Paul Canning about the eight stages of genocide. And the benefits of storytelling in LibDem ideas about getting the state to ban airbrushed photographs […]
Reader Alban is tenacious. He says that the 1974 SFRY Constitution differed from the 1946 Constitution; the later model did not have Kosovo as part of Serbia. Er, wrong. Article 2: ̐
Labour are busy with their latest Dead Cat (as I gather it is known in the trade) strategising. The Dead Cat plan is simple. You identify a scrap of bad meat somewhere near your opponent’s house. Then start screaming at the top of your voice that your opponent has a […]
Here is an interesting analysis with lots of examples from ESI describing how the sulky tricephalic Bosnian donkey will in fact lurch forward if the juicy European carrot (in this case visa-free travel for all Bosnians) is big and juicy and close enough. All sorts of laws and inter-Entity harmonisations have […]
Here is a well researched and perceptive bit of work by Anne McElvoy about the life and times of Sir John Sawers as he takes over at MI6. And about some of the unhappiness at his appointment from some top secret people sufficiently peeved to moan to a journalist about it. […]
Here is Keith Hennessey surpassing himself by explaining stunningly complex climate change issues in a way real people like us can follow. This sort of brilliant work is noteworthy because it is just the sort of thing top decison-makers will in fact read. None of them have time to absorb […]
Craig Murray is using an FOI bid to extract from the FCO a minute with then Foreign Secretary Jack Straw’s manuscript note on it, which Craig thinks will prove his case conclusively that Jack Straw is lying on key parts of the Torture story. Craig’s posting describing this bid is […]
