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Musings From The Hinterland (Free subscription) | yesterday
Further to part of yesterday's post, comes now Paul Hollander, in an editorial published November 2, 2009 in The Washington Post (H/T Volokh ) writes: The Berlin Wall that came down 20 years ago this month was an apt symbol of communism. It represented a historically unprecedented effort to prevent people from "voting with their feet" and leaving a society they rejected. [Snip] Soviet communism...
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Liberty Scott (Free subscription) | yesterday
The end of World War 2 was meant to be a victory of liberation from the hellfire of war on the European continent, and from the militaristic and genocidal tyranny of the Nazis and their allies in Italy, Croatia and elsewhere. For half of Europe it meant peace but only between states, not within. The United States initially took a fairly benign view of the Soviet Union and the Red Army’s presence...
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Dr Roy's Thoughts (Free subscription) | yesterday
A momentous event , but are we forgetting the evil that was communism? Twenty years ago on Nov. 9, a captive people of a divided continent literally with their hands dismantled the Berlin Wall. This wall represented not merely the totalitarian tyranny of Soviet Communism, but the eternal ugliness and evil of that inherent disposition in man to deny the freedom of another to live his life as he wishes....
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
If war is the continuation of politics by other means, the converse is also true. There are times when diplomatic words are fashioned into a weapon of attack, as France's Europe minister, Pierre Lellouche , demonstrated this week by telling the Guardian how "autistic" Tory plans to repatriate EU powers would "castrate" the nation, words surely designed to maximise collateral damage,...
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The Sir Robert Bond Papers (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
A few years ago Roger Grimes took a royal roasting for telling an off-colour joke at a small, private gathering of business people in New York. It was inappropriate, to put it mildly. That’s why it so nice to see the decorum Grimes’ successor has brought to the office as he welcomed the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall yesterday in St. John’s. This came shortly after a plug...
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Shakespeare's Sister (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Three semi-random photos I just downloaded off my camera, in lieu of an actual post. My dear friend the_pixie_mouse is in town (from their home in the US) with her husband so they could attend some Hallowe'en parties, and a Samhain dinner being held by my girlfriend in Toronto. She's a big fan of costuming, and so Hallowe'en is one of her favourite times of year. She picked a theme for all three of...
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Story time (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
I’ve recently finished the rather excellent comic book (note: I say “comic book” rather than “graphic novel”, which always struck me as a bit pretentious) series Preacher. In amongst the culture bashing and anti-god content I noticed a strong and prevailing theme: our ambivalent relationship to myths and legends. They exist for reasons yet almost entirely fail to inform...
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School Essays (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
“In a world darkened by ethnic conflicts that tear nations apart, Canada stands as a model of how people of different cultures can live and work together in peace, prosperity, and mutual respect”. Bill Clinton “Canada is the linchpin of the English-speaking world”. Sir Winston Churchill You can find a lot of [...]
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Sabbah's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Editor's Note: During the Peel Commission of Inquiry in 1937 into the British Colonial offensive against the Palestinians who were revolting against British-supported Zionist colonisation, Prime Minister Winston Churchill justified the military action on the grounds of the racial superiority of the Jews to Arabs. That racism still drives the West's policies in the Middle [...] SHAIK: Israel apologists...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Live coverage as the BNP leader, Nick Griffin, appears on the BBC's flagship political discussion programme 9.59pm: First, before the news, a plug for the programme from David Dimbleby. As if it hasn't had enough publicity already ... 9.55pm: Here's the story that the Press Association is running about the broadcast: British National Party leader Nick Griffin tonight denied he was a Nazi as he made...
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Giles McNeill (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
The Nothing British campaign launches today a new campaign by veterans to reclaim the honour of Britain's Armed Forces from the British National Party. You can find the campaign at www.nothingbritish.com, watch the videos on our YouTube channel, or follow on facebook and twitter. In an internet blitz of videos, a number of war heroes describe their anger that the BNP seeks to use the public's warm...
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The Age (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Winston Churchill suffered it, and so does Hugh Grant - why does anxiety not have the profile of depression?
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Sultan Knish (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Quick, name the greatest peacemaker of the 20th Century who never received a Nobel Peace Prize? The wrong answer given by Foreign Policy magazine is Gandhi. The right answer is British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Churchill would strike many as an odd choice for a Nobel Peace Prize. Didn't he preside over the bloodiest war of the 20th century that was fought around the world. A war that left millions...
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Interesting Spot on the Maps (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
View Interesting Maps in a larger map Schloss Cecilienhof is a palace in the northern part of the Neuer Garten park in Potsdam, close to the Jungfernsee lake. Since 1990 it is part of the Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin UNESCO World Heritage Site. Cecilienhof was the last palace built by the Hohenzollern family. Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany had it erected for his son Crown Prince Wilhelm of...
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Graham Pointer's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
My old college has produced several things to be proud of- the King James Version of the Bible, Methodism and the US State of Georgia. OK, it's produced two things to be proud of. On the downside, it is actually very embarrassing that the most senior politician from it is David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, who is on a one-man mission to ruin his credibility. And it's the old harping on and on about...
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