Take this story leading in the Telegraph this morning: Downing Street is at the centre of a fresh security scare after it emerged that private emails written by one of Gordon Brown’s senior officials had ended up in the hands of one of Britain’s most controversial political bloggers. The emails, […]
Here is a wannabe high-browish piece about Grand Theft Auto, a cleverly violent computer car-based game appealing to most boys of all ages. The hero of the game is one Niko Bellic, a computerised Balkanite tough egg (Serb?). I suspect that no Serb/Balkan name has a double ll in it […]
Some Good Friday thoughts. Most people (including until yesterday myself included) do not know that it is only quite recently that the USA established full diplomatic relations with the Vatican, namely in 1984 under President Reagan. The issue was controversial in US domestic terms and even provoked litigation. Did establishment […]
Here is another heavy and pessimistic analysis of Russia’s gloomy demographics: A specter is haunting Russia today. It is not the specter of Communism—that ghost has been chained in the attic of the past—but rather of depopulation—a relentless, unremitting, and perhaps unstoppable depopulation. The mass deaths associated with the Communist era […]
Former Ambassador turned Conspiracy Theoretician Craig Murray has written something really bizarre about the Bob Quick fiasco: Yet in all the acres of coverage in the newspapers, and all the hype on TV, nobody seems to have noticed the real story. It was an accident that Bob Quick had his […]
I have been quietly pestering the FCO about the spelling mistakes on their many websites. They have responded well to an FOI request about the rules/guidance they put round on website standards, sending me various papers. This guidance is pretty good, apart from one 100% incoherent sentence – just a […]
Sorry readers. An exhausting couple of days clearing out the parental garage. This old radio of mine emerged – a hefty but magnificent Pye Cambridge International. One of these cost a huge 42 guineas in 1954, the auspicious year of my birth. Not easy to say with any certainty what […]
President Obama has called for a world free of nuclear weapons. But he accepts that it might not happen in his lifetime. Why it is so difficult to scale back these systems once they are there? Basically, nuclear weapons are ghastly because they can not be used on any scale […]
Welcome Britblog Roundup fans to the first BBRU hosted here on my site. To get into the right frame of mind in compiling the roundup I decided to look back to 20 February 2005. On that momentous day Tim Worstall launched the first ever Britblog Roundup. Here it is. […]
At the ASI Politics and the Blog event I had a word with Guido to ask how he saw the secret of his success. He said that his own blogging phenomenon had started to grow strongly in 2005 when he had linked a Labour poster attacking Michael Howard to classic anti-semitic […]
