Wikipedia: a new battleground in the US Presidential elections.
Wikipedia: a new battleground in the US Presidential elections.
I met Michael Dobbs as he started his career in and around Yugoslavia when Tito died in 1980. He has had a glittering journalist’s life since then. He now is part of the Washington Post’s Fact Checker team. And has been busy checking the facts of Hillary Clinton’s visit to Bosnia […]
Anne Pringle replaces Tony Brenton as HM Ambassador in Moscow, to official Russian smirking. This is, I think, the most senior diplomatic position in terms of batting weight ever achieved by a woman in HM Diplomatic Service. Yo. One of the problems as a senior diplomat posted overseas is how […]
Thus, in capitalist society, we have a democracy that is curtailed, poor, false; a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The dictatorship of the proletariat, the period of transition to Communism, will, for the first time, produce democracy for the people, for the majority, side by side with […]
Looking again at the twitterings of Mr Mahbubani, one comes away wondering why he is so patronising towards if not contemptuous of his fellow Asians. Let’s assume the world is complicated and that running any sort of government structure and pursuing numerous different policy objectives requires ever-higher levels of sophistication […]
Take the piece by Kishore Mahbubani on the Guardian’s site today: "The Sermons of Cowards". Into the sausage machine are thrown the usual ingredients. Guantanamo, "the gulag of our times"; the USA’s Patriot Act ("In the face of threats from terrorism, the population has, in effect, accepted a reduction of […]
The squall over Hillary Clinton’s skewed memory of her visit to Bosnia in 1996 recalls to my mind my own no doubt skewed memory of President Clinton’s set-piece speech in Sarajevo’s National Theatre during his subsequent visit with his wife in December 1997. During this visit much of that part of […]
If you get something wrong these days, it can get pointed out out quite fast. But damage has still been done. And it is creepy how such high-profile matters are often corrected without saying that this correction has happened and why. Are we BBC licence-payers not entitled to rather More?
This article makes grim reading. The human cost of Mugabe-ism is soaring to nightmarish levels. Zimbabwe is a case-book study in the cost of Bad Leaders – leaders who for one reason or the other lose all sense of perspective and responsibility, and who then grab all the controls and […]
