Is David Cameron a mohawk-sporting radical? Yes, if punks drink milk
This week's Economist is a keeper. The front cover features David Cameron sporting a Union Jack-coloured mohawk, with the headline, "Radical Britain: The West's most daring government." It seems that...
View ArticleTea Party versus K Street: the real Republican faultline
Here’s an interesting observation from the Washington Examiner: The current GOP fault line is not exactly conservatives vs. moderates or new guard vs. old guard. For 2010, the rivalry is the Tea Party...
View ArticleNo bank bail-outs, no euro: is Iceland really so badly off?
In Dublin, the sense of economic crisis is palpable to the most casual visitor; but the same is not true of Reykjavík (see here). Being outside the euro, Iceland has been able to devalue, and is now...
View ArticleAccording to the Economist, First Past the Post is 'bracingly free-market'....
Here at the Telegraph, I’m something of a persecuted minority: I’m in favour of AV. I don’t see why it’s controversial to be in favour of something opposed simultaneously by John Prescott and Nick...
View ArticleChippy Nationalists suffer revealing sense of humour failure over The...
One of the most unattractive aspects of modern life is grievance-hunting. Many people seem to spend a large amount of their time purposely looking-out for things to be offended by. In Scotland, my...
View ArticleItaly can hold its head up as Berlusconi is jailed for four years
I've been lying to my Italian relatives. No, not about my having married in church (I didn't) or about my having a baby out of wedlock (I did); I lied about my being married to a man who worked for The...
View ArticleSome dangerously sensible people have endorsed Barack Obama
Colin Powell. Michael Bloomberg. The editors at The Economist magazine. What do all these three have in common? They are all harbour Republican sympathies, yet they are all endorsing Barack Obama for a...
View ArticleNorth Korea issues a list of 28 approved 'socialist' hairstyles. It seems...
North Korea gets a little madder every day. According to a Taiwanese website, the socialist paradise (Land of Milk and Honey, albeit rationed) has issued a list of 28 state-approved haircuts. They are...
View ArticleWhy stop at private GPs? Poles should run our schools and trains too
The latest issue of The Economist included a small story in its Britain section about My Medik, a low-cost, private GP clinic run by Poles. The clinic opened four years ago and has 30,000 patients on...
View ArticleGeorge Orwell: really not all that
Oh I know. I am contractually obliged, as a journalist, to say that George Orwell was the greatest genius ever to have lived, and – more importantly – how he'd definitely agree with me on whatever my...
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