The latest Britblog Roundup is here. A couple of links to posts by me on the Hama Massacre and the WTD. Lots of excellent and challenging material, such as this posting about new British legal prohibitions on photographing police officers. Blimey.
The latest Britblog Roundup is here. A couple of links to posts by me on the Hama Massacre and the WTD. Lots of excellent and challenging material, such as this posting about new British legal prohibitions on photographing police officers. Blimey.
If you can face worrying about climate issues as your financial lives wobble, swing by Climate Change Daily, a wonderful resource for articles to and fro. Such as this one in Spiegel Online: Germany’s renewable energy companies are a tremendous success story. Roughly 15 percent of the country’s electricity comes […]
One of the core arguments for doing something about Climate Change is that it is unfair on future generations to behave badly now (pumping out carbon into the air) and lumber them with the far-reaching results of our selfishness/negligence. Which assumes various things. That, for example, the results of Climate […]
My doctor friends tell me that another English crematorium has had to spend a lot of money buying a huge US cremation machine to cope with the soaring numbers of obese people now dying whose bodies can not be squelched into a normal-size coffin. A big problem. Still, the intellectual […]
It is justifiable if a British entrepreneur sets up a cheese business in France so that French cheese can be sold to the French. But it is not justifiable if that French cheese is sold to the British, undermining the British cheese industry! The wise words of Nicolas Sarkozy, president of France. Or […]
Our old enemy the EU Working Time Directive (WTD) last sighted was embroiled in deep procedural wrangling as between the various parts of the EU machine. Can it be left to rot in this long grass for long enough to get it entangled with new EP elections and maybe a […]
You are a Prime Minister. You throw overboard your Defence Secretary in a Cabinet reshuffle. But you feel you owe him. And it’s always better to keep ex-Ministers ostensibly busy, lest they start to chaff at their obviously ‘ex-‘ status and cause trouble in the Party. Maybe push him for the top […]
You get what you pay for. Nature fills a vacuum. What goes up, comes down. Pride comes before a fall. And so on. Thus: Since the calamities of the Balkan wars, the average European planner has assumed that there are two worlds of military operations: NATO and EU missions on […]
That sinking feeling: Investors who once considered their retirements safely protected wake up to a sinking feeling of uncertainty and gloom. Sound like the great mortgage-fueled financial crisis of 2008? Sure. But it also describes a calamity likely to hit as soon as 2009. State, local, and private pension plans […]
The point of the crushing and monumental brutality against Hama by the then Syrian leadership was to send a message to Islamic extremists: Do not mess with us, and if you do we will respond with crushing and monumental brutality Which has more or less worked quite well, as far […]
