Hillary makes a strong come-back, winning the Democratic nomination contests in Texas and Ohio. Can she now push to vistory and win the nomination? And then become President? Will she and Gordon Brown then be assassinated? On the day another tsunami hits Asia? Don’t bet on it. Or maybe you […]
One of the great cliches about Cuba is that despite all its human rights and other abuses it sure has a fine free health service which the rest of us should admire. Really? One of the ways in which any good health service keeps effective surely must be ready access to […]
I have been reading General Rupert Smith’s much praised book The Utility of Force and mulling over the review by former colleague Oliver Miles of Jonathan Steele’s book Defeat about the ‘doomed occupation of Iraq’. Doomed? Hmm. Maybe it depends how you do it..?
The electoral (mis)fortunes of Gennady Zyuganov, leader of Russia’s largest Communist Party, continue to be of some modest interest. He managed to position himself as the main opposition to President Yeltsin back in 1996, but did not win. He fizzled in 2000 and has fizzled again now. Maybe he should […]
I first mentioned it here. And now it’s back. The best, and more importantly only, way to stop burning off carbon to power the planet is to find something else which works. More technology. Preferably quickly.
What a fine analysis. If you want to block something many people want, don’t ban it – just make it too big a hassle to be worthwhile…
The misfortunes of Paul Gascoigne are ever on my mind, as each day I have occasion to see in my WC the framed photograph signed by him which we were given as a wedding present back in 1990 at the height of Gazzamania. The message was the work of a […]
As the results come in it is clear that Vladimir Zhirinovsky has failed yet again to become Russian President. He surged to prominence and even some significance in 1993 when his Liberal-Democratic Party won some 23% of the popular vote in the Duma elections. Before these important elections the […]
Now and again one comes across an utterly awesome YouTube item which transcends all known categories of excellence and human interest. Such as this.
Why does our society – and any society worthy of the name – work? Because in principle we make our choices, and respect those who make their choices. Hence most political controversy is, in a reductionist way, about the circumstances in which our choices might be forcibily limited or not for […]
