I’m still trying to work this out. According to Crooked Timber, the highly-respected 87 year old Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm has been deported from the United States. It seems like no one is quite aware yet what the reasoning is. … Continue reading →

As autumn draws in with frosty crispness and burnished leaves thoughts naturally turn to Teddy Roosevelt, whose comment to a friend on how he would fight off a would-be assassin (he came to the presidency after the murder of President … Continue reading →

Via Bloggerheads, an interesting post pointing out the somewhat unusual attitude the UK seems to have towards terrorism, which was itself a follow-up to another interesting post. Why am I bemoaning the UKIP for being fascist? We’re pretty much living … Continue reading →

Yep, Twatty McTwatface is at it again, accusing Michael Howard of nicking his wonderful ideas on immigration. (The fact that the UKIP’s immigration policy which Howard has supposedly pinched was itself copied off Canada and Australia seems to have been … Continue reading →

because you are the only person on God’s earth who can help me… I don’t want to die, I don’t deserve it and neither do the women deserve to be prisoners… Mr Blair, I am nothing to you. It’s just … Continue reading →

In my continuing trawl of blog type things, I happened across this little entry from a eurosceptic blog I noticed a while back. Sounds like the UKIP MEPs are (surprise, surprise) a bunch of thugs. However, “Strangely, although there were … Continue reading →

Good point, well made. It certainly is about time to sort out the CAP – probably the EU’s single biggest failure, I can’t deny it. However, opening up the EU market to third world nations probably wouldn’t make that much … Continue reading →

The Lib Dems are exasperating more than just me by the looks of things. An interesting post here by Oliver Kamm (who I haven’t come across before, so have yet to make a judgement beyond him seeming perhaps a tad … Continue reading →

1) Greeting of your guests is always important. When welcoming delegates to the United States, saying ” Welcome to the United States of America” is a perfectly respectable way to go about it. But make sure you are actually IN … Continue reading →

I missed the launch yesterday of another new political blog, courtesy of Blogcritics. This looks like it could well be worth following as a handy aggregate of a number of different perspectives on the US political scene. If anyone knows … Continue reading →

Some good points raised by A Gentleman’s Commonplace about the recent European Ryder Cup victory: “There is, after all, nothing like a common enemy… to bring Europeans together and for once the UK can join the party.” As anyone in … Continue reading →

As it’s conference season and all, it’s only proper to have a looksee. This blog is mostly focussing on foreign affairs, but for a change, a bit of UK domestic policy – specifically, the dole. On coming to power, Labour … Continue reading →

Hurrah! Everyone’s favourite British politician starts his own blog, and all thanks to the sterling efforts of Manic. Here it is, the long-awaited Boris Johnson.com! Hurrah! Let’s keep our fingers crossed he finds the time to stick with it.