Here’s a funny thing. The European Union has all sorts of firm things to say – and enforce – about how we should live nicely to save the planet. Think of all those permits off-shore oil companies need to do anything which might damage the oceanic environment. And the various […]
Did you know that August in the USA is National Make-a-Will Month? No! So get cracking.
Is here, hosted by Slugger O’Toole. See especially this: The reason any real scientist wants to share their data is precisely because somebody might find something wrong with it. That is what science is – the testing of theories against evidence. Plus which is Supreme, Court or Parliament?
As the world forgets about Honduras again, the former President’s hopes of returning to power look to be ebbing. Soon the country will be looking to new elections. Hurrah. Here is an interesting piece about how the Organisation of American States might have managed its diplomacy differently. By suspending Honduras […]
Commenting on my link to Sarah Palin’s arguments on tort reform, reader Daniel Simpson mysteriously asks whether I have read Private Eye? Private Eye, for non-British readers, is a British Institution. For nearly five decades now it’s been serving up a capricious mix of insider gossip, scandal and satire/wit which […]
Mark Steyn on Budd Schulberg: As a 20-year-old Dartmouth student, Schulberg visited the Soviet Union and was shown its artistic glories. He fell in love with the theatre of Vsevolod Meyerhold, Stanislavski’s wayward disciple. Meyerhold loved the older stylized dramatic forms—commedia dell’arte, pantomime—and refused to confine himself to Socialist Realism. […]
Have soared! The Treasury statistics show that the UK’s net contribution to the EU will increase from £4.1 billion this year to £6.4 billion in 2010/11… Last night the Conservatives branded government "incompetence" for the rise in contributions. The Opposition said the increased payments were the result of the "selling […]
Guardian writer Jonathan Steele dies, and as such goes straight to Hell. He is greeted warmly by the Devil, who praises his life’s work and offers him a choice of bijou accommodation. Jonathan peers uneasily through three windows. In the first cell is Tito, screaming as he twists impaled on a […]
Today is the 70th anniversary of one of the greatest crimes in history: the Molotov/Ribbentrop Pact. These two villains scrawled a line through a map of Europe to show who would grab what, then signed it. Here it is in two legendary cartoons by Herblock and Low:
Sarah Palin takes a well-aimed shot at one of the key drivers of soaring health costs in the USA (and the UK) – tort litigation: …we cannot have health care reform without tort reform. The two are intertwined. For example, one supposed justification for socialized medicine is the high cost […]
