Sheep and goats can readily be told apart by the remedies they propose for the steep rise in petrol and food prices. Sheep demand government action to bring down petrol prices, for example by...
Barack Obama’s book ‘Dreams from My Father’ is an extraordinary chronicle of Obama’s progress from personal isolation to reforming vision: essential reading whether or not he wins the Presidency [More >>>]
According to Paul Helmke, writing in The Huffington Post , Senator Barack Obama —
“supports limiting handgun purchases to one per month”.
I suppose that this will cook the goose of his presidential campaign: the notoriously powerful gun lobby in the United States won’t put up with that sort of left-wing commie authoritarian extremism, even without John Wayne and now Charlton Heston to bang the drum for them.
Tim Garton Ash urges us to demand that Russia observes standards of behaviour which we fail to observe ourselves, as my letter in today’s Guardian shows. Relations with post-Soviet Russia have been consistently bungled by the west [More >>>]
The Guardian has published a spirited and documented rebuttal by Ian Buist of an article about Kenya which played back many of the fashionable myths about the British colonial record. We should be proud of the many positive achievements of those days and especially of the way decolonisation was achieved [More >>>]
Recommendation to listen to a few minutes of comment on the Rowan Williams Shari’a law affair by the Revd. Dr Giles Fraser, vicar of Putney and philosophy don [More >>>]
American scholar Parag Khanna’s Guardian article reinforces my perception of the US and Europe drifting apart, a message that Khanna as an adviser to Obama might usefully pass on [More >>>]
Sadly the gulf between the political climates of the US and western Europe is growing; little hope of reform of the many shortcomings on both sides. But the EU offers a ray of hope for us Europeans [more >>>]
At present John McCain looks the likeliest candidate to beat both his Republican rivals for the nomination and the probable Democratic candidates for the Presidency. Some McCain myths unmasked [More >>>]
The British Diplomatic Oral History Programme based in the Churchill Archive of Churchill College, Cambridge, provides on its website transcripts of numerous interviews with retired British diplomats about their experiences of great and small events and their views on the conduct of British foreign policy [More >>>]