I am doing this coming Britblog Roundup. All ideas/links for inclusion to me by noon on Sunday 16 August, please. Esp from blogging Brits based overseas.
I am doing this coming Britblog Roundup. All ideas/links for inclusion to me by noon on Sunday 16 August, please. Esp from blogging Brits based overseas.
Remember Margaret Thatcher on ‘society’? Thus: And, you know, there’s no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look after themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and […]
William Hague’s interview with the Independent earlier this week was especially gloomy about Bosnia: Mr Hague, who also had extensive meetings with political leaders in a visit to Bosnia last autumn, said he feared the tensions could deteriorate into something worse. He said: "In some form [Bosnia] could break down […]
Has there been a clear principle or precept or standard or norm or something in Western jurisprudence accepting male violence against women stretching back to Romulus (750BC, give or take), famously enshrined 2100 or so years later in the English Common Law ‘rule of thumb’ (that husbands might beat their […]
Can I add blog entries from my iPhone? Yes! Update: (from PC) I confess. I was a Palm loyalist. But I got bored waiting for the Pre to appear and so opted for the iPhone. It is elegant and ‘clever’ in all sorts of ways. Plus the best thing is […]
If (as you do) you wanted to sell to a peevish US public the idea of more state intervention in healthcare, what would be a Really Bad way to do it? Give a rambling example of the private sector flourishing and the ‘official’ sector failing in the same market! That would […]
Here is Liam Murray answering some far-reaching claims made by John Holbo (Crooked Timber) on Slippery Slope arguments. John Holbo: Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue. And slippery slope arguments, arguments from unintended consequences and the paranoid style generally are the tribute conservatism pays to the deep […]
HM Embassy in Warsaw: The Embassy EU/Economic team maintains a regular dialogue with Polish Ministries and civil society on EU budgetary issues, to secure the best outcome for the EU. An effective EU must be equipped with a budget that enables it to respond to globalisation – and for this […]
Remember Honduras? Remember witty Ivor, who commented on my earlier postings: This is splendidly comical. On one side, the United Nations, the OAS, the United States government and, apparently, most informed opinion worldwide. Lined up against them, someone who spent 12 months as Honduran Minister of Culture – a political big-hitter, […]
There have been strong reactions in ‘Western’ capitals to the latest punishment handed out to Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma, the key effect of which is to stop her running in the next round of national elections. Malaysia too is dismayed. President Sarkozy and the British government are talking […]
