The Polish Government has showed its displeasure at the US missile defence decision by playing the protocol card: Prime Minister Tusk refused to take a telephone-call from Hillary Clinton, steering her to talk to her opposite number (ie Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski). Tusk eventually talked to President Obama after […]
President Obama has cancelled a plan to build US anti-missile defence radar facilities in Poland and the Czech Republic. This move has been hailed by Russia’s President Medvedev as a "wise decision". Which, of course, prompts the ignoble thought that if the Russians like it so much, something must be […]
This week I distribute the prizes as guest of honour at my old school, St Albans School. St Albans School is one of the oldest schools in the world. Thirteenth oldest in fact. It was founded in 948 by the Abbot Ulcinus, whom I recall with affection. He was an […]
The Total Politics list of the Top 300 UK political blogs is here. I have sunk to place 196 from 161 last year. Craig Murray has soared to 95 from 145. Aaargh. The methodology of this survey was curious this year, with people being expected to list ten blogs to […]
Former Ambassador Craig Murray has thrown himself back into the blogging ring after some self-doubt. He has a long post about the Lockerbie/Megrahi business, which covers the ground with the volleys of adjectives and adverbs one has come to expect: The Tories have shown their blood-baying, American bum-sucking true colours. […]
A new site called Big Government is doing remarkable work in exposing the seamier side of the major pro-Obama ‘community’ organisation ACORN, which up to now has been receiving US taxpayers money on a lavish scale. In particular their people have hit upon the ingenious wheeze of entering ACORN offices, saying […]
Here is a piece by Douglas Rushkoff at Edge which tries to get at the deep roots of economic theory, and finds it wanting: The economy in which we operate is not a natural system, but a set of rules developed in the Late Middle Ages in order to prevent […]
President Obama gave his speech on Wall Street today. This was the bit I really liked: Unfortunately, there are some in Congress who are misreading this moment. Instead of learning the lessons of the crisis from which we are still recovering, they are choosing to ignore them. They do so […]
Our gibbering spiteful government wants to bring in a sprawling new registration scheme for all adults working with or having dealings with children, to help stop paedophiles popping up unexpectedly. Uproar. But we are told to calm down: Sir Roger, whose agency will run the vetting scheme, said: "We need […]
Researchers and experts have been studying the history of fairy tales and have traced different versions of Little Red Riding Hood all round the planet and back into history: Whilst the European version tells the story of a little girl who is tricked by a wolf masquerading as her grandmother, […]
