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That Filner Resignation Speech 25 Aug 2013 | 02:04 pm
Non-US readers may have missed the resignation speech by the energetically groping Mayor of San Diego, Bob Filner (Democrat). It's not often that a speech by someone leaving office in high disgrace fe...
Bradley Manning and Crazy Horse 18 23 Aug 2013 | 12:04 am
Following my BBC Newsnight appearance last night re the prison sentence given to Bradley Manning, Riaz Ahmed has been in touch to make a strong point: Do you believe that the crew of crazy horse 18 (...
Inequality: Logic, Maths and Morality 22 Aug 2013 | 07:08 pm
An elegant piece by James Taranto over at WSJ looking at arguments that libertarian-minded solutions to the supposed problem of 'soaring inequality' may do more harm than good, and that conservatives ...
Tito: Pole, Russian or Lesbian? 21 Aug 2013 | 04:31 pm
An interesting old CIA analysis of Tito's strangled Yugoslav grammar and pronuciation concluded that he probably was a Polish or Russian imposter. The CIA opined that this fact "does not matter a gre...
Oxbridge Hegemony: Slightly More Goats 21 Aug 2013 | 02:10 pm
Down with Oxbridge hegemony: He said: “We are going to have a super Ivy League of Imperial, UCL, LSE, and then Oxbridge won’t be so apart, which must be good for our society. We are already getting t...
Egypt: What's Really Happening? 16 Aug 2013 | 09:39 pm
Two more superb American articles about Egypt. One by Adam Garfinkle looms at the very big picture and has some mightily wise words to say on the logic of political change: We can see in past develo...
Martin Luther King's 1963 Dream Speech 16 Aug 2013 | 05:36 pm
Here I am over at the Sunday Post in Scotland talking about the legendary Martin Luther King speech in August 1963: What elements make a great speech? Everything fits like a jigsaw — the words, emot...
The Parallel Universe of Penny Reddish Feminism 16 Aug 2013 | 02:48 pm
Two Tweets, one after the other: New Statesman @NewStatesman 2m Of course all men don’t hate women. But all men must know they benefit from sexism, writes @PennyRed http://ow.ly/nYVZg Telegraph Ne...
Charles Crawford: Guardian MasterClasses 15 Aug 2013 | 09:27 pm
You'll all be pleased to know that at long last you can sign up to one of my lively and memorable Negotiation Skills masterclasses, thanks to the good offices of Guardian MasterClasses: This is an ex...
Egypt and Diplomacy 15 Aug 2013 | 04:16 pm
My new piece for The Commentator: The main reason why I think it’s almost better for Western governments to say as little as possible in these grim circumstances rather than make loud statements of c...
