My first ever appearance on live UK TV this evening, on SKY to talk briefly on the ‘anonymous blogger’ issue. Why of all the bloggers in the UK they hit upon me is a mystery. But they did. Not an easy occasion, since the intro had me down as thinking […]
So here’s a new idea. People who have essential services get to pay a cutesy new tax to fund provision of those services to people who do not have them: The Prime Minister said a fast internet connection is now as vital as electricity, gas and water, and will help […]
My good pal John Sawers is to take over as Head of MI6, the first (mainly) FCO person to do so although he did start off there a while ago before crossing to join the FCO. He enjoyed a brisk ride to the top with an unusual amount of sharp-end […]
Or look at it like this. You enjoy going to Hyde Park Corner to listen to people banging on. You notice that one of the regular speakers there is a fellow in a black mask and cloak, who calls himself the Masked Revealer and shouts loudly about expenses abuses in […]
I previously wrote about the ethics or not of one US blogger ‘outing’ an anonymous (to be precise pseudonymous) blogger who had persistently criticised him. Now we have Orwell Prize winner Jack Night revealed to be Detective Constable Richard Horton by the Times. Iain Dale is sickened. FleetStreetBlues is/are pragmatic: […]
Craig Murray links approvingly to the opinions of one Yassamine Mather of Hopi (Hands Off the People of Iran). She takes a view commendably similar to that of Christopher Hitchens, albeit from a rather different lumpen Marxist angle: It is no surprise that the highly contested results of the presidential elections in […]
Mark Steyn picks up my earlier piece on Iran but is disinclined to offer the Obama Administration the benefit of any doubt: Our concerns are largely irrelevant: Obama? They don’t care about his speeches. The nukes? They’ll happen regardless, with wide support. This election was stolen for reasons of internal […]
A reader asks: I’m dimly aware of some of the covert aid the US offered to Milosevic’s opposition prior to his downfall. I am wondering if you can share some details about those events as well as whether your government also provided similar aid. This would be a very long […]
I posted a comment on another Iran piece by Michael Totten at Commentary Contentions: Another good ploy is to make clear that Western governments will do everything possible to expose the names of individuals in the regime suspected of ordering or encouraging acts of brutality against unarmed citizens, and to help […]
Talk about Hopey Change. Things have moved into a dizzying new universe when the EU makes a rather brisker set of noises on Iran than the USA. Here is the worst utterance of a US Presidential spokesperson – ever: Obviously, we continue to have concern about what we’ve seen. Obviously, the […]
