One thing that always makes me chuckle going through London these days is the announcement you always get on the tube: “In this time of heightened security…” Of course, the very fact that they have to make such an announcement … Continue reading →

Busy working out fancy HTML code and stuff. Have some interesting bits and pieces: How British and American conservatives united to stop Bush endorsing the EU constitution as favour to Blair The race to ratify the European Union constitution is … Continue reading →

Right people, I’ve found out a handy way to keep this thing looking a bit tidier, so now archives are to the right in funky little drop-down menu things (click and they shalt appear). I’m probably going to expand this … Continue reading →

Via Davos Newbies, a pessimistic take on Bush’s European visit (well, if you’re pro-EU, at any rate) from the Financial Times: “It seemed that every time the US president talked of liberty, one or other European leader would unfurl the … Continue reading →

No major editorialising here (to avoid more pointless squabbles, more than anything), but it must be said that I find it rather difficult to understand how more and more Americans seem to be believing that Saddam Hussein had links to … Continue reading →

A quicky link to an interesting Spiked article from a few days ago, Euro-elites desperately seeking demos, which follows on nicely from Spain’s low voter turnout in last weekend’s referendum and my latest moan about the state of the debate. … Continue reading →

Via the superb Siberian Light, yet more news of a really rather worrying revival of Soviet-style state propaganda in Russia. Now I may well be over-reacting here, but for some reason the idea of a television station run by the … Continue reading →

Don�t get me wrong, I am not trying to cause offence or tarring all religious people with the same brush here. Plenty of religious people are lovely, I have no doubt. Hell, some of my best friends are religious. But … Continue reading →

Against my better judgement I bought The Independent on the way in to work this morning (purely for Ralph Steadman’s front page piece on his old buddy Dr Gonzo). Flicking through the rest, I spotted the most inane leader headline … Continue reading →

In 1968, while tramping through New Hampshire on the presidential campaign trail, Richard Nixon asked one of his aides to pick a representative from the press pool, someone knowlegeable about football with whom the former vice-president and rabid sports fan … Continue reading →

Hurrah! As President Bush heads across the pond, The Periscope keeps up the good work of finding useful links and the like, and the New York Times reports that the Pres will make the sensible point that “our strong friendship … Continue reading →

The other day, over at The Yorkshire Ranter, there was a piece about how Americans seem to think the British bloggosphere is effectively nonexistent. It was a prescient post, it seems… Hell, I mean if abject failure Iain Duncan Smith … Continue reading →

The Periscope is going to be keeping tabs on Bush’s trip over the next few days, and already has lots of useful links. It will, however, be a visit I shall probably avoid mentioning too much, as it appears that … Continue reading →