Today I listened to a good BBC Radio Five discussion on the vexed issue of MEPs allowances/salaries, possible abuses thereof (see eg Guido). A commendable airing of some basic facts, plus sensible discussion between various experts/pundits and two MEPs. The subject ended up with a ‘what if’ exchange on the […]
Here is a typical modern academic definition: ‘a transportation device that compressed spacial units into conquerable size’. Of what?
Let’s hear it for the EU’s success in promoting high-level Diversity Targets in the foreign policy area.
Lest you think that Mark Steyn is nothing but a crazed Canadian demographer, have a re-run of this utterly classic piece of work. His famous interview from 2018 with Monica Lewinsky’s dress: To be honest, I was lucky to get the interview. The dress was supposed to be doing the […]
A typically splenetic piece from Simon Jenkins today rails against the Western world’s failure to stand by previously championed ideals of ‘humanitarian intervention’. His argument runs that the USA has had its fingers badly burnt by Iraq/Afghanistan and will withdraw from those places in due course. Without American leadership there can be […]
Julian Porter QC gave a terse summing up for the defendants in the Maclean’s/Steyn Human Rights Tribunal in British Colombia: Dr. Ayoub, calling on the American injunction, that you cannot cry fire in a crowded theatre. Oh yes you can, you must if in your considered view there is a […]
Zimbabwe as expected falls ever more steeply to total disaster. The gang of military/security leaders previously dependent on Mugabe now look to be running the shop, desperate as they are to cling on to power and privileges at the cost of ruining their own country. A text-book case. Yet the UN still […]
What do this outlandish ‘banning’ of a Transformer t-shirt from an aircraft and the Mark Steyn Human Rights Tribunal trial in Canada have in common? This. In US and English law there is a so-called eggshell skull doctrine. This has it that if one commits a tort or crime, one has […]
The long-awaited Mark Steyn ‘trial’ in Canada begins. Can a Human Rights Tribunal seemingly operating in an untransparent if not dishonest way suppress free speech in Canada, primarily because someone does not like what has been said? Vast (pro-Steyn) Background here. The live-bogging begins.
Guido and Iain Dale are riding high in visitors to their respective websites. Big numbers, comparing favourably if not better with similar sites run by ‘mainstream’ media outlets. Increasingly they all feed off each other, of course. Why not? For far too long a tiny number of media pundits have […]
