I have never seen astounding effort before, or at least don’t remember it. Hat-tip to the FT. Monty Python blast one into the back of the net – and describe the Eurozone Crisis with unerring wit and prescience:
I have never seen astounding effort before, or at least don’t remember it. Hat-tip to the FT. Monty Python blast one into the back of the net – and describe the Eurozone Crisis with unerring wit and prescience:
We mere Britishers tend not to follow in detail the goings-on in the USA, where a new literary genre has appeared – the Fantasy Autobiography, often wildly feted in the name of progressive causes. Here is Mark Steyn’s handy round-up of some superb examples which include, ahem, President Obama himself: His Kenyan grandfather was […]
Over in the USA an extraordinary and horrible trial has ended with a cascade of Guilty verdicts for Penn State University’s former football coach Jerry Sandusky on 45 separate accounts of abusing young boys. As Sandusky trudges off to what may not be a happy rest of his life in […]
Two years ago I mulled over the different ways in which World War Three might start: Maybe it all gets just too complicated. Too many things go wrong at the same time. The capacity of the world’s leaders and institutions to respond in a coherent and authoritative way on several […]
Off to Geneva for a couple of days with ADRg Ambassadors to deliver some more senior negotiation skills support work for an International Organisation. Our messages: Find out what the other side wants, to help you work out what you want. If you don’t know what you want, don’t be surprised if […]
American generosity in the form of the Marshall Plan transformed Western Europe after WW2. Hurrah. Everyone knows that. But what did that Plan do or not do? Precisely what did it do? Why did it work? How might any lessons from that initiative be applied to (say) Greece today? Good […]
As the Arab Spring slumps into the Arab Mess in most areas, we ignorant onlookers find ourselves wondering about the real range of political options and opinions in that region. What spectrum of options do most Arabs accept as legitimate and realistic when they sit at home moaning about their […]
How often do we hear that, especially on the Today programme? We face this problem – why doesn’t the government do something? Rarely is the case made is that we have these problems precisely because the government is ‘doing something’ – something absurd. And that by far the best thing […]
Back in distant 2008 I wrote about the vile N-word: What is the precise mechanism which makes people start to talk in arch post-modern jargon? Like this: Labour needs to provide a convincing new narrative if left-of-centre politics are to remain the driving force in Britain. Or this: Mr Brown […]
Here is my latest Telegraph Blog piece about the striking success of young Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic, who has beaten a senior Lithuanian colleague to become chair of the UN General Assembly in 2012/2013: The position had been uncontested since 1991, the different regional groupings deciding for themselves in […]
