Mark Steyn in honour of this fine Day reruns his polemic on those Danish Cartoons, which gets off to a momentous start: As Pericles told the war-battered Athenians, “To a man of spirit, cowardice and disaster coming together are far more bitter than death striking him unperceived at a time when he […]
Is narrated by the Anchoress: Two Polish men. Both artists. Both “brilliant.” Both persecuted by Nazis, in their native land. One was a prisoner, one was a slave. When the Nazis left, the Communists came. One, Roman Polanski, becomes a filmmaker. He encounters a 13 year old girl. One, Karol […]
Reuters report some unhappiness in Brazil about the fact that former President Zelaya of Honduras is camping out in their Embassy in Tegucigalpa: Government and opposition legislators in Brazil’s Congress have urged President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to stop Zelaya from using the embassy as a political theater. "Zelaya’s […]
No need to dwell on the Labour Party conference. If somehow they crawl back from the living dead and make a respectable showing at the next election, so much the worse for the UK. One interesting angle in the frantic attempts to prop up this Brezhnev-style corpse is new media […]
Not being an expert I am not sure what exactly counts as ideologically ‘feminist’ female writing (or not) these days. As one reader points out, Jennie Rigg is tackling the Polanski issue with vigour (and NB Naughty Words). As is Laura Woodhouse at the F-word, linking to a blunt demolition […]
A new legal move in the Czech Republic to ask the Czech Constitutional Court to opine on the Lisbon Treaty is pretty damn big news. The effect of this could be to delay final entry into force of the Treaty until after a UK general election, when a newly elected Conservative […]
The Polanski story is creating a buzz, as one might expect. My friend Anne Applebaum has been criticised for not declaring an interest. And as for Whoopi Goldberg who helpfully gives us a new feministic distinction between ‘rape’ and ‘rape-rape’?! More here. This is an easy one. What Polanski did was […]
A reader despairs of the teaching profession, citing this Teachmeet video as an example of the dumbed down way some teachers now communicate with each other: Meanwhile I am working on a presentation next week about Education, with a special look at language learning (I myself having had a good […]
Guido lauds the Spectator as the first UK current affairs magazine with an iPhone app: This is the future of journalism, the sooner the mediasaurs grasp this truth the more likely they are to survive into the future. I checked out the iTunes link and the only review of the App says […]
Craig Murray boldly affirms that the FCO and MI6 knew that al-Megrahi was not the Lockerbie bomber. I have posted this typo-strewn question on his site: On what basis do you ‘affirm’ (presuably (sic) on the basis of your former professional FCO experience) that "the FCO and MI6 knew that al-Megrahi […]
