Ann Althouse reminds us of a fascinating account of what was going on in President Gerald Ford’s mind when back in 1976 he made his ruinous observation (at least probably ruinous for his election chances) that there was "no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe": JIM LEHRER: Let’s go back at the […]
… and watch the first few minutes of this. The future. Incoming.
I’ve mentioned here previously the fact that Polish diplomats are under strict instructions to remonstrate strongly against any use of the expression ‘Polish concentration camps’ or the like to refer to the Nazi death camps built on Polish territory during WW2. Well, they have a fine opportunity to take this […]
DIPLOMAT magazine’s website now has my recent article on this subject. It starts with a story: Back in 1997 Prime Minister Tony Blair visited Bosnia. I accompanied him on the plane from Banja Luka to Sarajevo. During the journey the Prime Minister asked what had happened to his idea that […]
Try this one: ER = R x SDa x SDc x corr (a,c) This says that the excess expected return over cash of any asset should equal the product of just four things: – A measure of risk aversion, R. The more we hate risk – other things equal – […]
And here’s my new Telegraph Blogs piece, another one raking over the ‘solidarity’ issues of the #Eurozone: Uber-Europhiles insist that the right answer to that is get rid of pesky national-level voting, and indeed pesky countries – only an EU-level polis makes sense once economic risk-management is transferred to the […]
Here at Commentator is one I did today recalling (again) the infamous scheming actions of Harold Macmillan and other British soldiers in sending thousands of Yugoslavs to be murdered by Tito. Why did they do it? And what does it still mean?
As you know, this blog takes the view that in a globalised world a terrorist threat to the networks that support modern life are a threat to us all. And that international law doctrines of self-defence and ‘national sovereignty’ need to be redefined accordingly: if a state wants the benefit of modern […]
Here are the answers I have given to some questions about Russia, over on the Russia Insights website: What are 3 positive things you would say about Russia? Russia’s sense of itself – a quite different idea of scale, and what that means both for national policy and in historical and […]
You’ve probably been wondering what happened to that really cool Arab Spring stuff when all the young liberal Arabs we’ve been trying to find for so long finally got on Twitter and Facebook and linked up. And changed the world! So has Mark Steyn – read the whole piece (of course) […]
