Intermission

I won’t be posting any more now until the New Year. Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, Cool Yule etc., and I’ll see you on the other side.

Apologising for Pinochet

Daniel Finkelstein is entirely right to pillory those on the right who try to whitewash the recently deceased ex-dictator of Chile Augusto Pinochet.
“Long live Pinochet” chanted his supporters as the old man lay dying in hospital. As for me, I thought he’d lived more than long enough.
The Times records Margaret Thatcher as [...]

A Loss of Nerve

The Iraq Study Group report did not actually go so far as to recommend the replacement of the Stars and Stripes with a white flag, but it might just as well have done. The signal has gone out loud and clear that America (to the extent that the authors of the report represent [...]

Cameron takes the easy/difficult option

David Cameron interviewed in the Telegraph had this to say:

“I suppose you could spend the next few years as leader of the Conservative Party just telling people what they wanted to hear and jolly them along and everyone would be happy — and then you would lose another election. “

Perish the thought. Of course [...]

Other Parties

Every month the Daily Telegraph publishes a political tracker poll on voting intentions carried out by the polling organisation Yougov. The most recent one for November, in line with most recent polls gives the Conservatives a clear lead over Labour. As usual this poll was reported as good progress for David Cameron [...]

The Retreat from Politics

An excellent and very damning series from Richard North of the EU Referendum blog regarding Cameron’s impending failure and the destruction of the Conservative Party.
Part IPart IIPart III
The comments threads for these posts also provide interesting food for thought. What if the Cameron clique and his opponents on the right are both waiting to [...]

Carter’s Jewish Problem

Who would have thought that nice peanut-farmer chap who used to be US President would be a raving anti-Semite? Not me – I wouldn’t have thought he had the energy, for one thing. I just thought he was sort of an American Ted Heath, an old duffer who tours the world trying to [...]