I recall saying about the British press’s coverage of the US elections that, in contrast to 2004 when the British papers were where you went to for actual information, this time around they delivered the most anodyne and skewed conventional wisdom possible, just three days late. They’re still at it. Journalism! If you were going…
Read More news-style productJournalism! Where would we be without it? You can already see some of the risks of a country reliant on the internet without the traditional checks and balances provided by the professional standards of established journalism. During last year’s US election, several stories whirled through the media sourced to one political pundit, Martin Eisenstadt. You…
Read More oh, the interwebsCraig Murray seems to have taken a blog pill. Britain’s most disgusting journalist, New Labour creep and Jack Straw cheerleader Michael White, is on Sky News trying to justify his New Labour chums… That information comes from two sources both of which I trust not at all – White and a New Labour minister. ……
Read More disgusting reptile creep bully tribal predator snoutOur old friend S9-DAE, Ilyushin-76 serial 83483513, has been scrapped at Fujairah last month.
Read More firedump: S9-DAEGreat post of Dan Lockton‘s about what demand for energy actually is. Amory Lovins’ remark that no-one wants “energy”, they want cold beer, is of course another version of this. Which, once it had got together with this story about financing solar installation and marinated nicely in my del.icio.us queue for a while, made me…
Read More a question of demandThings are getting better in Iraq. If you’re mercenaries-turned-oil pushers Tim Spicer and Anthony Buckingham, that is! Heritage Oil has, indeed, struck oil. Up to 4.2 billion barrels of the stuff. This is of course very much subject to drilling, and even more so to Kurdish/Baghdad politics. If you’re trying to distribute wheelchairs, however, not…
Read More things are getting better in Iraq, for some values of better, for some values of Iraq…Much-discussed article; American goes to Holland, finds welfare state actually quite OK really! I was amused by the pleasantly clueless quote below: I asked a management consultant and a longtime American expat, Buford Alexander, former director of McKinsey & Company in the Netherlands, for his thoughts on this. “If you tell a Dutch person you’re…
Read More no ponyVia Worldchanging, the machine that turns up the music, flashes lights, and eventually produces fog if you do enough freaky dancin’. Its specifications and much more stuff are here. Of course, it’s a fairly obvious feedback loop, with a side order of poking fun at superstar DJs here we go! But there’s something I like…
Read More loopProponents of UAVs like to talk about the “enduring stare”; their ability to remain on station, to keep pointing at the target, rather than taking discrete reels of photos. Blogging ought to be a bit like that; keep after the story, don’t accept the official news (or bullshit) cycle. Hence, this McClatchy story, which has…
Read More can’t we, you know, move on?Reader “Ajay” has a theory that aviators are uniquely unfitted for government. There are a considerable number of data points in his favour. However, here’s a possible counter-example. Ernest Millington has died; he was one of three MPs for the brief Common Wealth Party, a radical leftist group that emerged during the second world war,…
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