Tart? Yes, I am!
I have an old French friend who has been telling me for years that my tongue is ‘a little too acidic’. Well, it turns out he’s
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Ethical Compassion
Cheerful Haitians enjoying the fruits of capitalism before the earthquake.
I watch the CNN news from time to time. It’s instructive to see the Americans, if not as they
Continue reading →Butter wouldn’t Melt in a Socialist Mouth.
D’you know who really set his one off? Nah! I’m not going to
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The Islamic Solidarity Games, due to be held in Iran in April, have been called off because of a dispute between Arab countries over what to call the Gulf….
The health denials that emanated from Downing Street throughout Autumn 2009 are now revealed in almost every detail as a tissue of cynical
Continue reading →No Sheep Please, We’re British.
In total, there are 4,309 animals and 147 different species within UK prisons – one for every 19 inmates.
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thunders the Thunderer! Wow!
Uncharacteristically provocative journalism on the part of the staid, sober,
Continue reading →There’s no true grit in a chaotic standstill
Salt of the earth, apparently!
I’m intrigued by the thought of a chaotic standstill. I would’ve thought that chaos requires movement. There is a troupe called Circus of Chaos, and I
Continue reading →The super-seven meltdown questions nobody seems able to answer
Seven tough questions. No useful answers.
I’ve been consistently asking seven questions of the financial and political communities since the Spring of 2008. They are classic ‘dumb and dumber’ questions
Continue reading →Life and Death.
Nick Robinson 6th January 2009.
Nick Robinson’s
Continue reading →The Strange Case of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
The Eurabian Sea.
Whilst you were sleeping, Herman Sörgel’s nightmare vision of artificially solving all the major problems of European civilization by constructing an embankment at the
Continue reading →Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.
Old Holborn – boldly goes where few have gone before. Charles Crawford – someone who actually knows what they are talking about on Akmal Continue reading → Why the internet opposition must unite against the counterfeiters
The brothers united cannot be divided
When David Miliband told the media the other day that there had been “no quote-unquote deal” to obtain the release of Peter Moore, one
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