Is here, hosted by Slugger O’Toole, although to keep us on our toes he labels it BBRU 213. With the Archbishop analysing the Caroline Flint fiasco. A defining moment for New Labour-style ‘feminism’?
Is here, hosted by Slugger O’Toole, although to keep us on our toes he labels it BBRU 213. With the Archbishop analysing the Caroline Flint fiasco. A defining moment for New Labour-style ‘feminism’?
The symbol of Warsaw is a mermaid, even though Warsaw lies some way from the sea. Here is my successor HM Ambassador to Warsaw Ric Todd in a sandpit showing a playful mermaidish mode. Separately, the Embassy has been hosting a reception for gay rights activists as a gesture of support […]
Back in 1973 I was at Oxford University with the likes of notorious toxophilist Tony Blair and Benazir Bhutto. It was a time of student so-called unrest, with a mass sit-in at the Schools Building in autumn 1973 to demand a Central Students Union. Basically, see, the point was that the […]
Orwell Prize-winner Johann Hari is the new generation’s answer to Polly Toynbee, a turbo-charged Progressive who pops up all over the place. It was he, you recall, who wrote a wildly wrong account of the railcrash episode in Atlas Shrugged: Indeed, her contempt for ordinary people extends so far that […]
Obama fan Camille Paglia looks at that Cairo speech, and is less impressed than she had hoped to be. Thus: Obama’s speech (which I read rather than heard) seemed to my teacher’s eye like a strong first draft rather than a polished final product… The Cairo speech is well-organized, ticking […]
Undeterred by doing worse than the British National Party in the 2005 election result in Blackburn, former Ambassador Craig Murray is back on the campaign trail. He is running as a local lad independent candidate in the North Norwich by-election, under the slogan "honest people can fight back". And he is going […]
Simon Owens at the lively Bloggasm has asked for views from the two US lawyers at odds in the controversy over one ‘outing’ the other whose anonymous comments had annoyed him (see my earlier posting here). The good result is here. I posted a gloss in a comment on his piece: Having […]
I have the pleasure of hosting this coming week’s Britblog Roundup. I would like to focus on the very broad theme of Britain and Europe. So anyone spotting good pieces casting some light on that always fascinating subject should send the links to: britblog@gmail.com Thanks.
My region’s re-elected MEP Dan Hannan has a way with words. First he depicts Labour as the Terminator: It doesn’t matter how often you blow it up, it just keeps crawling towards you. And then he gets on to Dr Seuss.
Brown was not discomforted alone. Parties of the centre left fell back across Europe despite the crisis of global capitalism. Michael White in the Guardian glumly picks through the wreckage of the Labour Party’s crashing failure last night in the European elections. Maybe parties of the centre left fell back […]
