The BBC website currently has the following headline: Iraqi al-Qaeda commander ‘seized’ Why the inverted commas around the word ‘seized’? There is nothing in the ensuing story to explain why, unless the idea is to imply that the Iraqi forces who say that they have done the seizing are lying or […]
We started with junk food. Then we had junk sport. Now we have Junk Diplomacy. This takes numerous exotic forms. But in its mainstream version it consists of high-level expensive and expansive Dialogue, the more vacuous the better. Thus European Voice reports poor prospects for this week’s EU/Latin America Summit […]
The Guardian’s Madeleine Bunting visits a new bore-hole in Africa, funded not by official development assistance but by voluntary efforts. She asks in some despair: "But the question that keeps coming back is: where is the state investment in Katine? Why isn’t Kampala finding the money to drill a borehole […]
Hot on the heels of my thoughts on how many NGOs are not really NG, here is another pertinent observation, pointing up the sneaky but widespread practice of sending taxpayers’ money to ‘NGOs’ then citing their views as support for the official line! But how to stop this sort of thing? […]
Plodding round the garden trying to cut the grass, I kept thinking about the momentous words of John Bosnitch! He dismissed me summarily on B92’s site as an "ex-ambassador trying to complete England’s never-ending mission of subduing Serbia as part of its global policy against Russia". Huh? What does JB think […]
Imagine a very hypothetical situation. You are in New York, the UN Ambassador of a country which has just been hit by a vast natural disaster which has killed thousands of your fellow-citizens. But the regime running the country is refusing to let international assistance into the country, probably causing thousands […]
My Blogoir entry on the latest Serbian elections has been run by B92, a leading ‘pro-European’ media outlet in Belgrade. And the comments flow. Mainly negative, which is fair enough. How many Serbs want to hear the views of a former British Ambassador? See eg this one from John Bosnitch who (if it is […]
Talking of small government, here is a legendary example of the difference between Capitalism and State Socialism. The latter in this case ably represented by a Conservative Government in London. Back in 1991 when the Soviet Union disintegrated there were fears that millions of Russians would starve to death. We had […]
The bewilderment of the UK Left’s chattering classes as Labour ratings sink would be enjoyable were it not for the devastation their ideas have created. Thus Polly Toynbee in the Guardian today, who still seems to think that squeezing the super-rich will make some sort of useful difference. She opines: […]
Ann Althouse wonders if it is really so bad for Whites to love Obama for the ‘wrong reasons’. On the other hand, here are some White people who are really loved by Blacks. And it rocks!
