Opinion

Idoneus Ideals: A Growing New Clothing Brand

Anyone wanting a beautiful classic T-shirt adorning a beautiful young lady or young man need look no further. Idoneus Ideals have solved the problem. And now you can follow them on Twitter @IdoneusIdeals and on Facebook. So, support nascent free enterprise. Buy. Now.

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Obama, Putin, Syria: Diplomacy for Post-Moderns

It’s a very rare honour to be quoted by Mark Steyn. But it can happen: This is what happens when you elect someone because he looks cool standing next to Jay-Z. Putin is cool mainly in the sense that Yakutsk in February is. In American pop-culture terms, he is a […]

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Pat Nevin Talks Rubbish on Football Pitch Size

Here on the BBC Football web pages is a video of former footballer Pat Nevin waffling on about the correlation between the size of a soccer pitch and the likelihood of goals being scored as a game draws towards the end: BBC Sport’s Pat Nevin explains how a variation of […]

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Homeward Bound

Try this one for size. Lovely.

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Assad Must Stay!

My piece for Telegraph Blogs this morning: Days ago Washington was gearing up to hit hard at the Assad regime because of its crimes against humanity in using chemical weapons. An almost impossible political case to sell (why will it make anything any better?) but at least it drew on […]

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Abusing Diplomatic Immunity

I appeared on LBC radio this morning on the always interesting subject of abuses of diplomatic immunity by foreign diplomats in the UK. LBC has done some digging and found that the number of crimes committed or alleged to have been committed by foreign diplomats based in the UK has […]

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Obama, Putin, Syria

Here is a really good WSJ piece on the foreign policy issues surrounding Syria. Really good for its grasp of the wider Big Picture, and despite the fact that I am mentioned in it: It is Barack Obama’s impulse to make himself and whatever is in his head the center […]

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9/11: Lileks

This astounding and inspiring piece by James Lileks from 2003 gives a view of the 9/11 attacks that always bears repeating as the anniversary comes round again: Two years later I take a certain grim comfort in some people’s disinterest in the war; if you’d told me two years ago […]

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Obama and Syria

How was President Obama’s latest Syria speech for you? Here it is. Points to note. He attempts to make the case that by failing to act against the use of CW in Syria now new risks for us will appear down the line: If we fail to act, the Assad […]

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Cycling and Risk

My piece here on how far if at all one should feel sympathetic towards a motorist who gets distracted and causes the death of a cyclist has prompted several interesting comments: But “unlucky accident”? Sorry, no. I am a motorist and a bike rider. Several years ago, during an urban […]

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