At last, the man himself: I am proud of my record in combating anti-Semitism. I have used my seat in the European Parliament to highlight how it still festers in parts of Poland. I am active in the European Friends of Israel. I am equally proud of my Party’s record. […]
The British government are not planning on holding an enquiry into their possible complicity in overseas torture: Kim Howells, Labour chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee which scrutinises the secret services, said the issue of UK complicity in torture had been "clarified as far as it can be on […]
Was HM Government ‘complicit’ in torture? No, says MI6 head Sir John Scarlett. A slightly more nuanced line comes from Ministers David Miliband and Alan Johnson: Yet intelligence from overseas is critical to our success in stopping terrorism. All the most serious plots and attacks in the UK in this […]
The latest Britblog Roundup hosted by Liberal England is here. He helpfully re-explains the BBRU rules, ie that the suggested postings have to have a clear British origin. Easy! See this link to a piece about Atlas Shrugging in Kircaldy, the Scottish constituency represented by PM Gordon Brown: This is […]
Part of the problem of modern government is that many social schemes are funded on Ponzi-scheme principles – the whole thing is paid for today on the assumption that there will be enough people tomorrow to keep chipping in too. And the day after. But as we know, demographic forecasts […]
As you get older you need to think ever more imaginatively about ‘making the earth move’ in your relationship. And lo, the market comes up with all sorts of new little devices for getting wonderful results in deep and mysterious places. This one is on my shopping list.
Mark Steyn is usually known as a writer delivering sharp witty jabs against progressive ideas and people: Obama’s a community organizer. We’re the community. He organizes us. What part of that don’t you get? But he also turns out strikingly thoughtful and interesting pieces about civilisational concerns. Such as this terrific essay about how […]
One of the fantastical and perverse features of modern government is its reliance on ‘consultants’. Having created sprawling systems of such obscurity/complexity that they are unable to do anything well, civil servants and Ministers then call in consultants to try to sort things (and themselves) out. The FCO has reeled under the […]
Deep, deep as we are plunged into the part of the year when the newspapers move at last to the Subjects which Really Matter, I note this article in my own newspaper the marvellous Guardian which dwells on the etiquette of, hem, peeing in the shower, preferably when the water is […]
