Warlord: A Life of Winston Churchill at War, 1874 -1945 (Library Edition)
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was to hold rare talks with his Ukrainian counterpart Yulia Tymoshenko on Thursday aimed at preventing a repeat of last winter's gas crisis. They will meet at the Livadia Palace in the Crimean resort of Yalta, the venue for the 1945 conference between Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill where the Big Three leaders redrew the postwar map.
Boulton (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Is Tony Blair about to make the most remarkable political come back since Winston Churchill? The Blair Camp is playing down his chance of being chosen as the new President of the EU council variously putting it at “1 in 10” and “less than likely”. But the fact remains – as Sky News has consistently reported unlike almost all our British rivals – that the name of...
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will meet Thursday with his Ukrainian counterpart Yulia Tymoshenko for talks on energy amid unease in Europe over possible cuts in gas supplies this winter. The two premiers are due to meet at the Livadia Palace in Yalta, the venue for the historic Yalta Conference in 1945 between Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, said a Ukrainian official....
Grasping Reality with Both Hands (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
November 13, 1939: On Friday, November 13, my relations with Mr. Chamberlain had so far ripened that he and Mrs. Chamberlain came to dine with us at Admiralty House, where we had a comfortable fiat in the attics. We were a party of four. Although we had been colleagues under Mr. Baldwin for five years, my wife and I had never met the Chamberlains in such Circumstances before. by happy chance...
Bigthink - Site Features Feed (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
We need to disabuse ourselves of several untruths being told about our war efforts in Afghanistan. One is that we are fighting for democracy. Democracy is fine for Norway and Denmark but it is bad in war-torn places that are undeveloped because it becomes a patronage system for kickbacks being handed out to corrupt insiders. What we want is a competent government that can secure its own boundaries...
Musings From The Hinterland (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
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...
Liberty Scott (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
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...
Dr Roy's Thoughts (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
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....
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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 [...]
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...
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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