This post comes from the new Microsoft blog post editor. My initial impression is that it will make blogging much easier for people used to Microsoft Word. It is astoundingly easy to set up – for this blog, which uses WordPress, all it needed was my username and password. But Read more…
If it turns out that the intelligence services and the police have indeed foiled a plot to commit mass murder on a scale never before seen in the UK – and I have no reason to believe that it won't – then we owe them our thanks and gratitude. We Read more…
G ran a personal best for 10km on Sunday, in a time of 42:16. (I think she may well improve on that some time soon). Here is the report in the ContraCostaTimes Sarah Slaymaker had the best finish among Berkeley-based runners, taking 31st overall. Sarah Smith carried the banner for Read more…
Enjoy this cartoon book about the development relationship from Survival International. HT: Curious.
Have a look at The Filter on Trade, and at Jim's response. Jim says: My bottom line is that I’ll support just about anything that tilts the system in favour of the poor. In so far as selective trade protection does that, I’m in favour of it. In so far Read more…
From the Adam Smith Institute. Brilliant. I've asked for some. Hat tip: Tim. Update: they arrived. Proving that even if there is no such thing as a free lunch, there is such a thing as a free wristband.
Michael Gerson was, until last month, George W. Bush's speechwriter. His views are hard to pigeonhole – perhaps compassionate conservative comes closest – (see this profile in the New Yorker): he is strongly religious, anti-choice on abortion, and instinctively in favour of free markets. But perhaps his defining interest is Read more…
Peter Hitchens in the Mail: I repeat, I love America, think we have much to learn from her, am endlessly glad that she exists, I like Americans and enjoy many aspects of American culture. My heart always lifts when I arrive there and sinks when I have to leave again. Read more…
Senator Lieberman says he is going to run as an independent, having lost the Democratic Party nomination in Connecticut. I don't know much about how party discipline works in the US, but in the UK running against an official party candidate would lead to automatic expulsion from the party. As Read more…
According to the Guardian The Darfur peace agreement is on the verge of collapse with fresh fighting displacing tens of thousands of people and violent attacks on relief workers forcing aid agencies to consider pulling out. Clashes involving government forces, allied militia and guerrilla factions have forced more than 50,000 Read more…