It is always heartening to see Croat DNA on the cricket field. Especially when everything else is going so badly.
It is always heartening to see Croat DNA on the cricket field. Especially when everything else is going so badly.
Most of you would think correctly that one of us was enough. Maybe some people looking for me end up with the Abandoned Bunny. Just as people needing an Abandoned Bunny with some sharp Boston IT skills end up here. It’s all just too darn confusing.
Update: Welcome Iain Dale readers, although all credit or discredit for what follows goes to the author of the lively passages below, namely Jamie Stokes, "an English person with bafflingly unclear motives for living in Poland". Here is a droll account of a visit to a not very British Embassy in […]
This Washington Post article makes a deft case for the claim that the anonymous Joker/Socialist posters of President Obama are really racist: Although Ledger was white, and the Joker is white, this equation of the wounded and the wounding mirrors basic racial typology in America. Urban blacks — the thinking […]
It has come to this. I am transformed from a hoplessly progressive Guardian reader into hopelessly progressive Guardian writer. My Response to Timothy Garton Ash’s recent article about Michal Kaminski has appeared. The article as I drafted it for the paper has been tweaked by Guardian HQ in certain respects for unclear […]
A well-turned piece by Carne Ross (Independent Diplomat) taking up the release by North Korea of the two American journalists on the problems facing diplomats as and when hostages are grabbed: Even Bill Clinton’s harshest critic should celebrate this rescue as triumphant and humane. But as the women’s families breathe […]
Craig Murray swings at President Clinton for being photographed with the ‘appalling’ Gulnara Karimova, the not unattractive daughter of the leader of Uzbekistan. Just why Clinton is posing with the appalling Gulnara Karimova is unclear. But it might well relate to the continued efforts by the Obama administration to improve […]
Should the state-funded NHS in the UK pay for IVF treatment for couples wanting children? In some areas of the UK it does, in others not. Shock. Discrimination. The point of course is that such anomalies are not a bug, they’re a feature. Hard decisions have to be made on […]
For the actual swearing-in ceremony of so-called President Ahmadinejad in Iran, HM Ambassador Simon Gass brusquely elbowed his deputy Patrick Davies out of the way and attended to represent The Queen. To the displeasure of The Times: The Foreign and Commonwealth Office said that it had dispatched the ambassador because the […]
Liam Murray tries to look at healthcase provision according to some basic principles, and is unimpressed with the idea that the state back out: If you can’t afford healthcare then you have no such personal liberty. In a rich, developed country like the US it offends decency for anyone to […]
