Back from a long drive in the heavy rain, passing the time listening to BBC radio Any Questions for the first time in years. (Note for non-Brits: this is a veteran deeply earnest current affairs programme featuring four panellists of differing views answering questions from a live audience from a local […]
The Oxford Webware maestros are helping me liven things up a bit round here. So (within the frugal limits of my ability to recall how to do it) there could be easier YouTube links and more pictures now and again. Some people ask me, "Did you really have a Mini […]
At some point I hope to ’embed’ a link to Chris Muir’s terrific daily cartoon strip, Day by Day. It features four Americans opining wittily on life and politics, not least a curvy young Democrat feminist and her cool dude dark-skinned Republican boyfriend. But others have good walk-on parts. For example, […]
This (via Daniel Hannan) is absolutely grotesque. What are we being reduced to? And why are we paying taxes to subsidise the madness of thought leading to such a pernicious, creepy document being even considered, let alone written?
In the tsunami of commentary on the Sarah Palin speech, this piece by Michael Ledeen is interesting for non-Americans (and maybe for many Americans too): … For the first time in memory, we have a major candidate who comes from the frontier, and it’s not surprising that the pundits are […]
On the subject of feminism, here is Naomi Wolf gushing on the psychological gains to be had from shrouding her body, Muslim woman-style: I experienced it myself. I put on a shalwar kameez and a headscarf in Morocco for a trip to the bazaar. Yes, some of the warmth I encountered […]
Paleofeminist Gloria Steinem is unimpressed with Sarah Palin: The culprit is John McCain. He may have chosen Palin out of change-envy, or a belief that women can’t tell the difference between form and content, but the main motive was to please right-wing ideologues; the same ones who nixed anyone who […]
Success. This website has stormed from a standing start in January this year into the Total Politics Top 200 UK Top Political Blogs list, at position 161. Not as good as, say, position 156. But notably better than, say, position 166. And rising fast next year, in hot pursuit of […]
