A lively piece of US-style political analysis: Sure, Hillary’s fat and waddly and screechy and gives pantsuits a bad name. Sure, she’s the kind of gal my dad’s generation knew back in college in the Sixties, the one who wore granny dresses and never shaved her legs and slept with […]
As if the EU’s ambiguous response to the Georgia crisis was not depressing enough, life is getting tougher on the economic side too in Europe: The eurozone as a whole shrank by 0.2pc, the first contraction since the launch of the single currency a decade ago. Germany led the slide with […]
Michael Binyon deploys chess metaphors to describe Russia’ s military push into Georgia: Vladimir Putin lost several pawns on the chessboard – Kosovo, Iraq, Nato membership for the Baltic states, US renunciation of the ABM treaty, US missiles in Poland and the Czech Republic. But he waited. The trap was set in […]
The commentaries on Georgia pour out. This one by John Bolton is sharp and good. Try this: The European Union took the lead in diplomacy, with results approaching Neville Chamberlain’s moment in the spotlight at Munich: a ceasefire that failed to mention Georgia’s territorial integrity, and that all but gave […]
Back in the West, there is a health and safety policy I have not seen before here at Aquatica, the new water-park next to SeaWorld in Orlando. As one waits in line for a good splashy ride, a tape-recording in a prissy male Australian voice tells us all that: Your […]
Here is Nobel Peace Prize Winner Mikhail Gorbachev piously enjoining people in the Caucasus to live together nicely: The roots of this tragedy lie in the decision of Georgia’s separatist leaders in 1991 to abolish South Ossetian autonomy. Each time successive Georgian leaders tried to impose their will by force […]
Welcome Instapundit readers. While we Crawfs have been travelling the Georgia story has moved on, to the point where French President Sarkozy has been helping broker some sort of truce and possible peace plan. No end of commentaries too, of course, many dwelling on what this episode tells us […]
So much for the new online service for speeding admission to the USA. We reached Newark Airport immigration control desks and none of the officers there had heard of it. Having filled in all the forms on the aircraft ‘just in case’ we somehow survived this indignity and made our […]
Busy ploughing through Lonely Hearts by John Harvey. The hero of this series of well praised detective stories is Detective Charlie Resnick. He has a Polish background which makes a lugubrious appearance now and again. But if Arrow Books are going to do detective stories with a Polish angle, they ought to get Poles to […]
After my exciting red pen adventures at New York airport immigration desk in May, I am taking no chances with my forthcoming family holiday in Orlando. I have registered all of us with the new ESTA website run by the US Government to make easier (in theory – let’s see […]
