Florence Hartmann, former ICTY spokesperson, has been fined for leaking ICTY documents improperly. It looks as if the Serbian authorities in Belgrade handed over the documents to ICTY on condition that they were used only for the war crimes trial of Slobodan Milosevic, and not passed on to the International […]
Blimey. Things have got bad here, when even the Guardian thinks the British government have gone mad: Every day, there is some new example of madness or spite perpetrated by a government that seems now in its final gibbering months to be waging war on normality itself. Remember the astounding […]
Is hosted by ‘always feminist’ Philobiblon. Check it out. I like it when feminists talk dirty. And BBRU 239 links to a posting by diamond geezer asserting that blogging is dying (the main argument being that as there are so many blogs there are fewer comments and it is the comments which make a […]
A consignment of weapons clandestinely sent from North Korea to Iran is intercepted by the UAE. Pretty big news for the UN Security Council and the different sanctions regimes against North Korea and Iran alike, huh? Of course not, when the USA is chairing the UNSC: At Ambassador Rice’s news briefing, […]
My earlier posting about Vladimir Putin’s ‘Letter to Poles’ has been taken up (in a shorter version) by RFE/RL. Have a look at the comments from pro-Russian types, which are especially agitated on the subject of whether the Red Army in 1920 was attempting another ‘land grab’ by invading Western […]
Tim Worstall links to an insane comment on the site of progressive Matthew Yglesias who mulls over Youth Decay: In general, teenagers are going to be low on the educational attainment scale and also lacking in impressive job qualifications beyond formal education. It’s perhaps a sign of a more efficient, […]
The EU gives the UK a ‘rebate’ on its Budget contributions, since otherwise UK payments into the EU pot would be disproportionate. But clever readers of this blog want More. How exactly is it calculated? they clamour. Never one to disappoint, I give you the answer. Here, in a handy […]
Here I am, at Gatwick Airport en route to the 19th Economic Forum in Krynica (southern Poland). This is a sort of ‘economic Davos of central/eastern Europe’, a major and invariably well attended gathering. The main website is here. My own modest role in and amongst so many Good and […]
Would-be speech-makers and speech-writers! Learn to count before the speech goes live. Otherwise what seems rhetorically elegant may end up … weirdly self-referential? H/t Ed Driscoll ("The best hat in the Blogosphere"): scroll down to Update II.
The plummet to earth of self-styled communist Van Jones, a shooting Tsar in the Obama Administration firmament, prompts one to wonder about this obsession here too with appointing ‘Tsars’ to lead high-profile policy areas. Thus we are the victims of: Cancer and eight(!) other health Tsars Flu Tsar Drugs War […]
