I wrote about the British Embassy in Warsaw’s encounters (and not) with Roman Polanski last year: It turned out that Polanski has been invited ‘privately’ to lunch at HM Ambassador’s Residence in Warsaw under a previous management. So UK taxpayer’s money had gone to feed and water this fellow in some […]
An elegant analysis from Scott at Blue Contrarian here on the problems we get by draining out from foreign policy analysis any idea of ‘the national interest’, with special reference to Afghanistan and the argument that by intervening there we primarily are advancing the cause of women’s rights. Are we replacing the […]
Is here, hosted by peregrinating cyclist Nourishing Obscurity. A lot of work has gone into this one with masses of links, so swing by to see all your questions answered: Brigitte Bardot – feminist? No. Is the aim of life to pass on one’s genes? No. Are our institutions being […]
An exhausting week of historic top-level Summiting in the USA. We had President Obama’s historic speech to the UN General Assembly, followed by assorted other speeches of varying distinction. We had an historic UN Security Council vote on nuclear weapons: . Then a probably historic G20 Summit in Pittsburgh, complete with […]
On Tuesday I had the honour of addressing the Conservative Friends of Poland at the fine Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum in London. My attempted and vast unmanageable theme was European Conservatism: What’s the Big Idea? Namely a romp through a few centuries of history and the ideas underpinning contemporary […]
Lieutenant-Commander Tadeusz Lesisz has died aged 91. Here is a sense of what he achieved and witnessed in his extraordinary life. People like him built the social and moral capital which today’s enfeebled generations do not even understand and are frittering away. So civilisations flow and ebb. Dziekuje.
Somehow this site has been linked to by Bill Ellsworth’s. Go and look at what happens when you are over-exposed to Hippy Eastern Philosophies. And assorted paradigms. And CD covers. He shares with us this magnificent quote from Richard Fernadez: … the differences between a society which organizes itself around stern […]
The latest and not too long Britblog Roundup as hosted by Matt Wardman is here. It dwells on that central subject of political phenomenology, the close links between the UK Lib Dem Party and Nazis – all with a Yugoslav angle to make it all the more fascinating for readers of this […]
Wrinkled Weasel asks: My line of late has tended towards the very position you are critical of – the concerns of Russians about "encirclement" Can you explain to me why the USA, which has far more form when it comes to "encirclement" than Russia has had in the last 50 […]
Former President Zelaya has made it back into Honduras and is basing himself at the Embassy of Brazil. Since there is no obvious prospect of his being restored to power by lawful or normal political means, he evidently plans to try a popular power push of some sort. Which, one […]
