A pseudonymous fellow blogger (PFB) and I have had an exchange re privacy and the Night Jack story: CC: Do you really think that if you get up in public as a blogger does and start banging on, you also have the right to get an injunction based on ‘privacy’ […]
Lib-Dem Mark Reckons reports on a significant discussion about new media trends in blogging/commenting and so on. Surely the point is that we are in a classic Long Tail scenario, where market conditions are driven by technological changes. Once upon a time the sheer cost of spreading news and views […]
Remember the bubbles coming out of the mouth of Naomi Wolf on the subject of the liberating effect of wearing shapeless clothes? President Sarkozy sets the rest of the ‘West’ a magnificent example in calling the burka what it is: a sign of subservience: In a major policy speech, he said […]
Remember this long lost posting and the earlier one linked there on rock music and diplomatic parlance? I was given David Gilmour’s Live in Gdansk for my birthday, and listening to it I was taken back a long way to Meddle: Super lyrics from Pink Floyd as they got into their […]
Sir Richard Dalton who served as HM Ambassador in Iran gives his view on the drama unfolding there: Despite how individuals may have voted – and notwithstanding brave acts of individual protest, such as resignations – the government apparatus, the parliament, the clergy, the commercial elite and most civil society […]
Dan Hannan argues that Lord Mandelson’s manoeuvres to keep the Labour Party staggering on are all about Brussels, not about the UK interest or even the Labour Party’s own mistunes: So what the devil is he playing at? Viewed from the Westminster lobby, it seems an impenetrable mystery. From the […]
Catless Trixy hosts this week’s round up, and does the job briskly. She has some good links to people unhappy with the outing of police blogger Night Jack. Including this one from Letters From a Tory: I’m sure some anonymous bloggers would indeed be worried about being unmasked, and my fierce […]
Oh Lordy. The Daily Mail rants against the FCO travel package. Tim Worstall falls for it. Try something like this. Any normal employer posting employees overseas includes an arrangement in the postings package for letting staff return to the UK periodically. Does the Dail Mail post anyone overseas? Do they […]
The story of the pilot who alas died while flying a passenger jet of course makes on think about margins of error. As it happens, the other day I heard an account of a couple driving down the motorway where the wife as front-seat passenger suddenly realised that her husband […]
Alert readers will notice that I have reorganised the site a little, to make the Search function better and to give greater emphasis to the various excellent services I offer – see the new buttons on the left. This blogging business takes a lot of time, but generates zero revenue. […]
