Brian Barder describes a failed attempt to pull together a letter to The Times from a group of British ex-Excellencies about ‘the profoundly mistaken policies of the British and American governments’ towards Russia/Georgia: … some of those who had occupied key positions in the area during their diplomatic careers, and […]
Former Weatherman Bill Ayers explains himself – in a (not very) comic strip: Way to go cool 1960s’ Radical Left politics ("I don’t think violent resistance is necessarily the answer…") albeit a bit gaunt now. Need to work on the grammar of that final sentence, Bill. But he does manage […]
I previously linked to Christopher Hitchens and Michael Totten analysing why the Kosovo case is quite different from the cases of either S Ossetia or Abkhazia, rendering spurious/dishonest Russia’s recognition of the latter two as new states. Here for good measure is former US Ambassador to Zagreb and Belgrade, my friend Bill […]
If you read nothing else this week, read Camille Paglia on Sarah Palin. Firecracker writing plus generous, intelligent insight – and heavy hits landing on all and sundry: It’s heavy weather for Obama fans, as momentum has suddenly shifted to John McCain — that hoary, barnacle-encrusted tub that many Democrats like […]
The piece by PM Gordon Brown in Monitor magazine which gives a positive word to the Obama campaign is here. It has caused a fuss. Bad form for a foreign leader to make remarks of this sort? But listen to this: Labour party sources have suggested may have in fact […]
If you are a Democrat watching uneasily the growing support for McCain/Palin among women – especially Wal-Mart moms – how best to respond? Maybe best to avoid serving up an elderly white man to say that a vote for snappy young Palin is a step backwards for women? Watch Joe Biden’s […]
Quirky old Polish film posters are rightly being lauded at the Daily Telegraph. I know a good place to buy them in Krakow.
The Guardian today: Russia to leave Georgia after EU deal How utterly shamefully absurdly useless these people are. The ensuing article: In a press conference yesterday afternoon, after four hours of talks, Medvedev made clear that Russia’s withdrawal of forces depended on Georgia signing a "non-aggression pact" with South Ossetia and […]
Christopher Hitchens back in February tried to build the case that Kosovo was never ‘internationally recognised as part of Serbia’: [After WW1] legal instruments agreed between [Yugoslavia and the no-less-new state concept calling itself republican Turkey] recognized Belgrade’s sovereignty over Kosovo, but solely in the sense that they recognized Belgrade as […]
As well as surging into the Total Politics Top 200 UK Political Blogs this blog has made it into the Top 20 UK Libertarian Blogs. I achieved a more than respectable 11th place, amidst distinguished company. Since the libertarian trend in all its many varieties is the shape of the future, […]
