Jasmin Mujanovic, a self-styled ‘proud Wobby’ young left-anarchist based in Canada but with Bosniak roots, has written at some length on the problems of the Dayton Peace Accords. He offers his suggestions for making progress, seemingly a BH-wide series of open meetings at which Bosnians define for themselves new constitutional principles. […]
Call me a killjoy, but I found the latest Batman film pretty hopeless. It was far too noisy, as if to cover up the clunky plot and vacuous philosophising. Is Bruce Wayne the secret identity of Batman? Is Batman the secret identity of Bruce Wayne? Do you need fear to […]
That depends upon what you mean by ‘the Internet’. I was taught at Harvard that the whole thing works because of the protocols that allow one computer to ‘talk’ to another. And because of ‘packet-switching’ – the way digital information is broken up into tiny scraps that then each make […]
Here is my latest piece at Telegraph Blogs: Our Ambassador to the United Nations Sir Mark Lyall-Grant has come out strongly against this further Russia/Chinese veto: “Russia and China are failing in their responsibilities as permanent members, they are failing the people of Syria … The effect of their actions […]
A very smart article by Tom Smith over in San Diego, pointing out how Government scrambles to assert to itself an inordinate share of private success but breezily overlooks all the failures it’s caused: It’s difficult to even explain how pervasive, expensive, frustrating and sometimes just plain insuperable the regulatory […]
One of the problems with teleprompters is that you the speaker can’t improvise easily. You’re stuck with the pre-agreed script loaded on to the machine. Those words scroll inexorably across your screen, and if you deviate from them it is not easy for the person doing the scrolling to fathom out what […]
Read this one on the accelerating genius of 3D printing – scanning things digitally then making speedy fast models in new robust materials and at stunning speed. Including for gnashers: It’s pretty intuitive to apply this technology to the automotive and aerospace industries, and jewelry has always been a big market. But […]
The Browser points us to an interesting interview with Sophie Ratcliffe on PG Wodehouse: It’s the quality of his style and his jokes. For instance, “She came leaping towards me like Lady Macbeth coming to get first hand news from the guest room.” Or, “[He] clasped her to his bosom, […]
*Sighs* This is what I grew up with. And how cool and exciting it seemed:
Over at the FT (may be paywalled) is an interesting article by Wolfgang Münchau explaining why the ‘pro-Europe’ tendency is struggling to articulate a coherent position (basically because if they do, it won’t get supported in Germany). One reader William Thayer Snr offers this terse thought: Let me state it quite […]
