November 11, 2008

Ten Years of 'Change' in the UK

I may be a little worried but I do wish Barack Obama well. He cuts a personable and an attractive figure as a political leader -- provisionally at least -- and these things are important. The soaring rhetoric is in itself also appealing in a politica...

January 5, 2008

Global Hot Air from the BBC

Billions of people now ‘know' about global warming and how it threatens the planet. They ‘know' that it is all the fault of decades of irresponsible, profligate industry and capitalism. And yet, what exactly do they really know? Have they...

July 21, 2007

Life Imitates the BBC

The current scandal involving the BBC is just the tip of a very large iceberg. Its cutting-room trickery designed to make the British queen appear fractious and ridiculous was all just a regrettable mistake says the BBC. Cynics, on the other hand, mi...

January 21, 2007

The Psychology of the Self-Hating Liberal

The good news is that, after a whole century of heading in the wrong direction, a moral and intellectual challenge to the bleeding-heart version of liberalism is finally welling up in the West. This is in no small part thanks to the liberating force ...