I make it into the 200th Britblog round-up, with my piece below on Industrial Policy. It’s hosted by the quixotic Mr Eugenides. Go and have a look. There is a link to a bafflingly random video ad for washing machines featuring topless female sky-divers.
The idea is back that a wise thing to do is bring back state-sponsored ‘industrial policy’. See eg Lord Mandelson: "We need to focus on areas of policy like technology, skills, regulation and investment and export markets – and how we set the relevant conditions for business success in these areas," he […]
A reader picks up on my grumpy remarks below about Professor Lieven and asks: Seriously, Charles. What’s with the zero-sum thinking? Fair enough. One answer might be that modish moaning about Western Greed seems to me to miss the Point by several miles. Which Point is that we probably have […]
Unabashed by the contrast between Real Life and his September prediction (how far ago that seems already) that McCain would win in a landslide, Spengler looks again at Morality, Economics and Demography. And makes some hefty points about so-called free markets: There is something profoundly disingenuous about the pure free-market […]
While perusing the FT‘s website I saw this exhortation to Mancunians to vote for a Congestion Charge. In a bewildering display of insolence towards the FT, Manchester has voted massively No: With a margin of almost four to one, a referendum in which more than 1m people participated rejected plans […]
Professor Anatol Lieven gets over-excited: A fraction of the trillion and a half dollars now spent on rescuing western economies from the consequences of their elites’ greed and recklessness would have been enough to have greatly reduced African misery, stabilised Pakistan and other Muslim states – or put a human […]
Networked activism – the overwhelming aim is to be networked and active. And supremely self-important: They seem to be laboring under the impression that their iconic future president doesn’t possess sufficient willpower to resist the poisonous mumblings of a man like Brennan, leading him from the True Path upon which […]
On Monday I saw my old boss Pauline Neville-Jones (now a Conservative peer leading on Security) give a presentation about Conservative Party security policy. Some good ‘classic’ points (down with multi-culturalism, up with the border security and associated changes in Whitehall needed to defend a Free Society), but I was left […]
The EU has been beavering away for some years now trying to agree a ‘Directive’ which would limit the number of hours we all work. I am proud to say that I played a walk-on part in helping block this impertinent and damaging collectivist initiative; the British Embassy in Warsaw […]
The preamble of the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina as drafted at Dayton quaintly categorises the citizenry of B&H thus: Bosniacs, Croats, and Serbs, as constituent peoples (along with Others), and citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina hereby determine that the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina is as follows: … Huh? Huh?! […]
