EU Referendum (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
In The Daily Telegraph today, with comment by Conservative Home , this has fascinating implications not only for the UK but elsewhere in the world. We'll write about it in detail later today.
EU Referendum (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Contrary to popular belief, we do not go out of out way to pick holes in the output of sundry journos. However, increasingly often, it seems, their claims are so outrageous – or their writing so gullible – that we simply cannot leave them without comment. Storming straight into both categories goes the latest offering from Laura Clout of The Daily Telegraph who today tells us that, "A series of huge...
EU Referendum (Free subscription) | yesterday
While European Union member states, individually and collectively, seem intent on wiping out their productive economies through their regulatory obsession – in the main "guided" by global warming paranoia - there is a comfortable assumption that affected industries can move to more benign regulatory environments. Alternatively, we can take up the slack by importing primary commodities (or finished...
Lenin's Tomb (Free subscription) | yesterday
At last, the truth will emerge. With Radovan Karadzic's capture and imminent trial, by a US-sponsored junket known as the ICTY, we will get to know the full facts about mass rape and genocide . Or will we? Forget for a moment the effrontery of a 'court' that effectively acts on behalf of the occupiers of Iraq dispensing wisdom on war crimes. And let's leave aside the fact that - whether or not Karadzic...
EU Referendum (Free subscription) | yesterday
With the advent of the London Motor Show, more than a few journos are twittering about the new "green" Hummer, mentioned in passing by The Guardian and given pride of place by our favourite paper . What allows this sudden conversion to "green" credentials is the use of biodiesel, which the manufacturers "insist" is far more environmentally-friendly than using conventional petrol – a claim which is...
Lenin's Tomb (Free subscription) | yesterday
One of the ways the tabloids exhibit their basic indifference to the real problems around knife crime is in their indifference to its victims. When Leon Francis was stabbed to death at the age of 24, newspapers like The Sun chose to focus on his conviction for armed robbery, and to treat his murder as a matter of gang warfare. What they didn't care to know was that Leon Francis, having emerged from...
EU Referendum (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
It is times like these which make you really proud to be a European citizen, a member of that glorious, expanding European Union, which can reach out with its "soft power" and bring peace and harmony to the rest of the world. Thus with such glowing feelings do we applaud our brave and far-sighted foreign ministers who gathered in Brussels today to slay the evil Mugabe, going far beyond the remit that...
EU Referendum (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Some readers may have noticed that I have been blogging lightly recently. The reason was preoccupation with other work. That is now finished and I can return to duties though the boss, as ever, managed to fill those gaps. I shall not write about Obama's trip to Europe as I think I should follow neo-neocon's example and start weaning myself off the subject. Instead, here is one of my favourite subjects,...
EU Referendum (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Sigh … the WTO talks win out. This is one area where there is no substitute for real expertise, and the number of people who really understand what is going on you can count on the fingers of one hand. Yesterday, Mandelson opened the bidding on the part of the EU, offering to cut its proposed tariff cuts on agricultural products to 60 percent from 54 percent. This was immediately denounced by Brazil...
EU Referendum (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
It has long been my view that the main trouble with our MPs is the frenetic lifestyle they lead in their artificial bubble at Westminster. It does not give them time to think – not that many of them are capable of that activity anyway. From my lofty detachment 200 miles away from what is laughingly called the "centre of power", things sometimes look very different but, most of all, the ability as a...
EU Referendum (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Would our own politicians follow ? Nice "spot" from House of Dumb . COMMENT THREAD
EU Referendum (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Why they ever let Rosa Prince near a newspaper is one of those modern mysteries that is beyond human ingenuity to resolve. Styled as a "Political Correspondent" her talents (not) are well demonstrated in a piece she writes for our favourite newspaper , telling us that more than 30 waste incinerators are set to be built around the country as councils seek to avoid substantial hikes in landfill taxes....
Informed Comment Global Affairs (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Farideh Farhi Upon his return to Iran from Geneva, Saeed Jalili, Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator was very clear in only one respect. Responding to a question from the Iranian press, he stated that in Geneva there was no discussion of Iran’s suspension of uranium enrichment. Jalili is actually quite correct. The Geneva talks were not supposed to be about suspension. They were intended to help launch...
Lenin's Tomb (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
U.S. and Iraqi forces are preparing another siege of Fallujah under the pretext of combating "terror", residents and officials say. Located 69 km west of Baghdad, the city that suffered two devastating U.S. attacks in 2004 has watched security degrade over recent months. "Ruling powers in the city fighting to gain full control seem willing to use the security collapse to accuse each other of either...
EU Referendum (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
That was Channel 4's own description of the reaction to its programme, "The Great Global Warming Swindle," which has been subject to an Ofcom investigation, the results of which are published today. The "warmist" Beeb is trying to spin it as a big deal, but the fact is that nothing in the programme "materially misled so as to cause harm or offence". That was despite 265 complaints having been received...
