Various readers are continuing assorted Balkan wars in their comments on this site. It always happens, sooner or later. Keep it cool, folks. Reader Alban (pro-Kosova) makes a strong (and wrong) claim: Kosova never has been part of Serbia. Under Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) it had the status […]
Yuk! Those strange reactionary Poles are talking about chemical castration for rapists. Except that other very respectable places are thinking along similar lines. Even France. Here is one of my core Theories. Once upon a time, masses and leaders had roughly equivalent access to weaponry. OK, not every peasant could […]
Jonah G (not to be confused with Whoopi G) describes the good news in the Polanski arrest saga: That brings us to the even more refreshing aspect of this controversy: It is not a Left-Right issue. I’m not normally one to celebrate bipartisan unity, but it’s nice to know there […]
Ben Emmott in the Times says that if Ireland (as expected) says Yes to the Lisbon Treaty, the UK Conservatives need to shut up and move on. Not that he is too impressed with the way the issue has been dealt with: The whole charade should anger anyone who cares […]
This is just a fine little posting by Instapundit. So, yes, I was bemused and checked. And it seems (a) that these people need to think about their acronymed image, and (b) that I need to get out more.
Remember that great film starring Peter Sellers? This is not about that. Rather it is to pick up a comment posted by our old friend Ivor (at least I think it is ‘Ivor’ – s/he again cunningly leaves no email trail) on my observations about Neil Craig’s claim that I […]
More on that self-proclaimed independent EU-sponsored Report on the 2008 Georgia conflict. Points of interest from it, as they come: The Mission had no access to intelligence reports: a serious setback, I’d say. Not least since the whole business was launched because of what Georgia + Washington ‘really’ thought Moscow […]
Neil Craig at A Place to Stand goes for it: MILOSEVIC’S CRIME WAS TO BE INNOCENT & NAIVE SAYS BRITAIN’S AMBASSADOR This is a long and not altogether coherent assessment of various replies I have posted on his site arising from his bold claim that the LibDems are complicit in […]
Researchers (does not that very word make you want to grab your revolver?) have found that children who eat sweets and chocolate every day are more likely to be violent as adults. I just want to kill these scummy people. I mean I really do. Ooh yes please, I will […]
I have been mulling over the EU-sponsored Report on the Georgia/Russia conflict which, being a very European document, spreads blame around with great punctilitude. An interesting yarn. This remarkable passage caught my eye: … international law does not recognise a right to unilaterally create a new state based on the […]
