Here is one eloquent US feminist’s analysis of the Palin phenomenon: Make no mistake – the Democratic Party and its nominee have created the powerhouse that is Sarah Palin, and the party’s increased attacks on her (and even on her daughter) reflect that panic. The party has moved from taking the […]
If you want to read online the FT’s distinguished Lex column, you have to pay for it. But at least Lex shares with us for free a nifty graph on the rouble’s fortunes up to and following the Kremlin’s Georgia intervention: Russia’s 1998 financial crisis, after which one foreign banker observed he […]
This piece at the excellent Knowledge Problem neatly looks at differences between Chinese and Russian oil reserve management styles: There are few assets more specific than an oil well. If you invest wisely today to maximize the present value of the well’s future output, that does you no good if […]
Katherine Whitehorn’s ramblings against competition as somehow juxtaposed against ‘action for the common good’ miss one other vital effect of competition, namely its tendency to incentivise frugal use of resources. We hear all the time sundry collectivists urging the idea that capitalism and competition are uniquely wasteful of resources and environmentally […]
This morning on the radio I stumbled upon veteran UK broadcaster Katherine Whitehorn’s impossibly grand voice condescendingly calling into question the value of markets. Here, if you can face it, is the full text of her Point of View. Off she goes: Political correctness has long been condemned, often unfairly, for the […]
This posting on Russia/Kosovo/Georgia prompted a pointed comment from reader Will: Your article seems to be another in a series of lame attempts to minimize Russia’s responsibility for her actions in GA with a critique of the West’s Kosovo policies. Am I wrong on this? One point in which you […]
Far from accepting the defeatist idea of different and inevitably rival ‘spheres of influence’ in Europe, the EU should use its one true serious advantage vis-a-vis Russia, namely far greater wealth and a far better example. Andrew Wilson captures it well: The most effective way of dealing with a newly-assertive […]
Greetings, Guido readers. Back in late 2005 Guardian prima columnista Polly Toynbee was urging the case for Gordon Brown to replace Tony Blair: From now on, the economy will turn upwards and there is no need for Labour to panic – yet, of course, they will. Faced with bad polls, […]
Jon Worth has a couple of thoughtful observations on the farcical European Parliament report which broods on the disruptive role of bloggers. I think that he has a point, of sorts. But the best way to deal with vampires when they pop out is not to assume they are unmenacing just […]
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