September 2009

Does the Sun's switch in support matter? No, is the short answer. The media's power is vastly overestimated both by politicians and, of course, journalists, but also by ideologues from all sides

Part of my weekend was spent reading David Galula's Counter-Revolutionary Warfare: Theory and Practice. Galula fought in the wartime resistance and then in Indochina and Algeria, with periods as a military liaison

A few weeks ago, I wrote a short jokey blogpost on the subject of Onion TV's satire of conspiracy theories about the media. (Weather Channel Accused of Pro-Weather Bias, which you can

Further evidence that the Crown Prosecution Service wants to drop the "Crown" from its name: I have just received an invitation from the CPS and the Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office (which

The Bloody Sunday Inquiry will not deliver its report until the end of March next year, the government announced tonight.

Russia Against Napoleon by Dominic Lieven

A week after British intelligence officials confirmed the growing international jihadist threat emanating from Somalia, the media wing of the al-Shabaab militia have released a video re affirming their support for bin

It has always struck me that while huge concern is expressed about the recrudescence of largely left-liberal, antisemitism in contemporary Europe, a great silence extends over the extent to which it exists

An unknown number of people "may have died" from oil slops dumped around Abidjan, the capital of Ivory Coast, in August 2006, according to a leader in last Thursday's Guardian.

I've been enjoying a new book by Jonathan Kampfner called Freedom for Sale. Its about the various democratic or sovereign autocracies and how they seem to be exerting a magnetic attraction on