Tim Ireland is back online at b-heads.blogspot.com. In other news, the London Friends of Craig Murray report that Schillings are not going to sue Craig Murray because they don’t want to give him any more publicity. While that’s good for Murray, the words ’stable door’, ‘horse’ and ‘bolted’ spring to mind.
SpyBlog has also kindly posted [...]

The People’s Commissar of Enlightenment has tagged me with the top five political influences meme. In no particular order, they probably are:
The London School of Economics and Political Science: I spent five years at LSE and learnt an awful lot there. Its unique mix of people – it’s very international, but, unlike most universities, has [...]

According to the Conservative Party, ‘over twenty thousand’ people took part in the primary for the Conservative candidacy to be London Mayor. Guido Fawkes gives a breakdown of the results:
Boris Johnson – 15,661Victoria Borwick – 1,869Andrew Boff – 1,674Warwick Lightfoot – 609
Three things to note. Firstly, the figures above add up to 19,813, so the [...]

His Grace the Archbishop of Maputo, Francisco Chimoio, has said that some condoms imported from Europe are impregnated (no pun intended) with HIV while some ARVs are similarly infected to “finish off” the Africans. No evidence is forthcoming about this, so I would suggest that His Grace is ignorant, wilfully or otherwise, or a liar.
I [...]

As I understand it, the modernist take on nationalism requires that the nation is not prior to nationalism; that is to say, nationalism may cause the nation or something causes both the nation and nationalism to come about. The nation cannot come first and therefore cannot cause the nationalism.
There are many, competing definitions of nationalism. [...]

Talk is going around about a motto for Britain – apparently Mr Brown welcomes a debate about a motto and the BBC News Magazine is looking for suggestions. The best option is, I think, not to have a motto. The United Kingdom is the only country that I can think of, now that the USSR [...]

The base of Fred Thompson’s comments about the USA having spilt more blood for liberty than any other state is ridiculous and, where it is going, dangerous.. Most Americans alive today were not alive in 1945; they are at least one step removed from it. Rather more, though, were determined not to fight in Vietnam, [...]

I am absolutely delighted and more than just a little surprised to have read on Iain Dale’s blog that I am, it would seem, the ninety-second best left-of-centre blog. I’ll aim for thirty-eight next year…
xD.

“The majority of laws are only privileges, which is to say, a tribute by all to the convenience of a few”
-Cesare Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishments
xD.

I hadn’t really heard of Alisher Usamnov until today; I’d seen his name mentioned on a couple of blogs, but he was barely on the radar. I suspect the same was true for quite a lot of Arsenal fans – perhaps heard a bit about him, maybe read about him on a blog, nothing more.
His [...]