How far should what people did back in February 1970 fairly be taken into account now? And by whom? Another story from those distant days makes an interesting contrast.
How far should what people did back in February 1970 fairly be taken into account now? And by whom? Another story from those distant days makes an interesting contrast.
At an FCO Leadership event in 2006, a presentation on Globalisation argued that we were now beholding one of the most momentous changes in human history roll out before our very eyes: the addition in only a decade or so of a billion new people to the global jobs market-place. […]
Every now and then one sees something … Unusual. Such as, via Jay Nordlinger, the striking spectacle of former UK Cabinet Minister Clare Short seemingly relishing the day when her former boss PM Tony Blair will fall into the hands of ‘brave lawyers’ – and be put on trial by […]
More on EU Foreign Policy. What is a ‘foreign policy’? Let’s assume that, crudely speaking, it is something like this: What Country A (maybe in partnership with countries B, C etc) does to get another country to do things it otherwise might not do on its own, either because that outcome is in […]
A new consensus is emerging. Biofuels are Bad. Not that long ago they were Good. As Mark Steyn puts it: On April 15, the Independent, the impeccably progressive British newspaper, editorialized: “The production of biofuel is devastating huge swathes of the world’s environment. So why on earth is the Government […]
This Quote of the Day at the Adam Smith Institute blog caught my eye: We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission … A few years back when […]
Back in 2001 when I had been Ambassador in Belgrade for only a few weeks not long after the fall of Milosevic, I was asked to give oral evidence to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Commons. Here it is. It reads pretty well now as a summary of […]
Does it matter if Europe’s population declines faster than in other regions? If it does matter, why does it matter? Here is a neat summary of a few of the issues. I like this line: I can’t shake the idea that the demographic projections are a civilization-wide vote of no […]
EU Referendum’s thoughts on why a ‘European Foreign Policy’ is not a good idea got me thinking. What actually is ‘Foreign Policy’ anyway? Could the EU in fact be good at some aspects of it but not all? What are the pros and cons for the UK of ‘More Europe’ in the […]
The website Biased BBC brings together people dissatisfied with tendentious or evidently slanted BBC reporting and analysis. I have had my own moments of supreme dissatisfaction with poor BBC work, so I share their pain. See especially this, when the BBC got it 100% damagingly wrong at the height of […]
