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Live-blogging Ohio, Texas and, er, Hamilton…
The internet is all about niche, right? It’s clear to me that there’s an as yet unfilled opening for a blog that combines analysis of the latest shenanigans between Barack… Continue reading
6 CommentsObama on trade: still not as grim as Clinton?
More on trade. Jagdish Bhagwati says that Obama’s better – or, rather "a less disturbing prospect" – on trade than Clinton. He gives five reasons: First, Mrs Clinton, in an… Continue reading
0 CommentsOiks Welcome!
Comments are good. It’s always nice to hear – and learn – from readers. So it was lovely to receive this comment from, appropriately, "Monoglot", on this post about Marion… Continue reading
6 CommentsJoke of the Day
This could be the most risible thing one’s seen yet from this risible government: The Labour Party has accused the BBC of bias towards the Tories. An official complaint has… Continue reading
0 CommentsIf you ain’t got family, what you got?
Another sad tale of a writer essentially making up a memoir: In “Love and Consequences,” a critically acclaimed memoir published last week, Margaret B. Jones wrote about her life as… Continue reading
0 CommentsWe already have the NHS, do we need a DHS too?
Earlier this year Con Coughlin argued in The Spectator: Clearly there is a need for the government to get a firm grip on all the various security challenges that might… Continue reading
0 CommentsPhoto of the Day
Selkirk on the attack during Saturday’s tough 8-0 victory at Falkirk in the Scottish Cup. The club’s reward is a sixth round tie away to Haddington. (Away again!) (Photo credit:… Continue reading
0 CommentsBushism of the Day
George W Bush’s malapropisms aren’t really terribly interesting anymore. (And, to be fair to the President, he’s a much better speaker now than he was eight years ago.) Still, this… Continue reading
0 CommentsThe Terrible Exchange Rate Gap…
Larry Kudlow, who normally sees brilliance in every aspect of the Bush administration’s record, now sees only disaster. Here he is at The Corner: If Sen. John McCain wants to… Continue reading
1 CommentDoh is not a real word…
But… The makers of Scrabble are going after the Indian boys responsible for the wondrous Scrabulous. What stupidity. Don’t they realise that Scrabulous has introduced the Facebook generation to the… Continue reading
0 CommentsMore Canadian Bacon
The Canadians say the Clinton campaign has also told them that her abysmal campaign rhetoric should not be taken too literally. One hopes that is the case. This leads Noam… Continue reading
0 CommentsThe Democrats’ War on Canada
Megan McArdle suggested last year that one way to choose a candidate was to look at their economic advisers and pick the candidate with the smartest team. That being so,… Continue reading
0 CommentsThis is your government boasting…
Charles Moore in The Spectator: One of the running jokes in Private Eye used to be a list of benefits from some public service or other which included, inexplicably, ‘grapefruit… Continue reading
0 CommentsI, Criminal
Mr Eugenides has the details about how the Scottish government’s advertising campaigns presume that we’re all criminals. Depressing stuff. Mind you, when I saw this poster I assumed it was… Continue reading
0 CommentsWill the real Dave Cameron please stand up?
The British political and media classes are, naturally enough, obsessed with and fascinated by the American presidential election process. That leads to the temptation (always yielded to) of trying to… Continue reading
0 CommentsThe A Team
It’s late on a fiercely cold evening with the rain lashing and the wind howling down the Yarrow valley. Obviously, then, it’s time for an exciting new Debatable Land series!… Continue reading
9 CommentsNew look for 2008!
Thought I’d try out a new look; let me know what you think. Good? Bad? Better? Worse?
5 CommentsAnother Lost World
I’m not sure they make publishers like this anymore. Alas. As is so often the case we may count on the Daily Telegraph’s exquisite obituaries page to provide the details.… Continue reading
0 CommentsBooks do furnish the mind, but…
Wise old man* says: In the forthcoming volume of his Smoking Diaries (not out till April, but I’ve been reading a proof copy) my old friend Simon Gray makes a… Continue reading
0 CommentsThe Same Old Way
It would be something of a stretch to compare Hillary Clinton to Napoleon Bonaparte and Barack Obama to the Duke of Wellington. Nonetheless, as this campaign has progressed and Hillary… Continue reading
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