… just when Barack wants to make America cool again, people are being really mean to him. How cowardly is that?! Via American Digest.
… just when Barack wants to make America cool again, people are being really mean to him. How cowardly is that?! Via American Digest.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn at Harvard in 1978: A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days. The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party and […]
Is B Obama losing momentum? If so, is it because he did not take some earlier advice?
When you interfere with a natural process, there are consequences, not all of them good — and you should be mindful of them. It’s not just fish that end up getting hurt.
The role (if any) played by former diplomats in public life depends to quite a degree on how – and how far – they draw on their extensive and unique experiences in the Diplomatic Service. So, questions. What are the limits if any on what they can say publicly about […]
Looking at the FCO website on the David Miliband Blog page is this curious list of links (presumably there to indicate Mr Miliband’s own inclinations) to non-government sites: New media and e-government Whitehall Webby Digital Dialogues Simon Dickson Stuart Bruce David Wilcox eDemocracy Update The Obvious? Emma Mulqueeny Personal South Shields Gazette […]
War criminals are war criminals only when they are convicted of war crimes. Until then they are ‘war crimes indictees’, ‘people suspected/charged with war crimes’ or some such neutral phrase. Why? Because it is true. And because it is unwise to give such people any excuse to claim that they […]
Via Brian Barder, this really good – and meaty – assessment of the current plight of Kosovo by Jeremy Harding. It in fact headlines the Kosovo situation, but really it is about the Limits of Diplomacy – how far can countries on their own or in teams act deliberately (a) […]
Welcome, Britblog Roundup readers. The latest Roundup is here. It links to one of my Craig Murray Saga posts: "long-term mud-wrestle … one to watch." Lots of other interesting blogs there too. Such as the Stroppybird – someone about as far from my own views as I can imagine. It […]
