I turn my back and...
Well, you go away for a day and then log on to discover that Poland has declared war on Germany, Sven's been approached to manage a 2008-9 Championship team and the EU's committed itself to communism.
Blimey O'Reilly. I'd better stay put before anything even worse happens.
Previous
Blogs: Clive Davis | Melanie Phillips | Americano | Coffee House | Trading Floor
Actions: Print this article | Email to a friend | Permalink | Comments (2)
Post this entry to: del.icio.us | Digg | Newsvine | NowPublic | Reddit
Advertisement
Stephen Pollard's Blog Roll
Oliver Kamm
Politics, economics and culture from the master. Unmissable.
Daniel Finkelstein's Times Comment Central
A daily must-read.
Tim Worstall
Lots of interesting nibbles - and a ruthless swatter of economic gibberish.
Marginal Revolution
Tyler Cowen's riveting economic blog.
Harry's Place
Must-read left of centre blog from writers who understand the threat to the West.
Thought Experiments
The peerless Bryan Appleyard's blog.
Opera Chic
An American in Milan, on opera.
Intermezzo
A London-based classical music enthusiast.
Jessica Duchen's classical music blog
Does what it says on the tin.
Samizdata
Libertarian blog, packed every day.
Norm's blog
The thoroughly sensible thoughts of renowned left-wing academic Norman Geras, Professor of Government at Manchester. And cricket, too.
Public Interest
Peter Briffa's inimitable take on The Yazzmonster and other assorted demons.
Reform
The public sector reform group; their website is an invaluable source of data and ideas.
Centre for the New Europe
The leading European public policy think tank.
Latest blog posts
sponsored links
Sky TV, Broadband & Talk from £16 a Month
Sky TV & free broadband packages available from £16 a month. Choose from a standard free sky box, sky plus or sky hd.
Sky TV, Broadband & Talk from £16 a Month
Sky TV & free broadband packages available from £16 a month. Choose from a standard free sky box, sky plus...
ROME CENTRE
PORTA METRONIA, ROME Standing high on the top of one of the seven hills of Rome- the Coelian- this unique
City Breaks. ROME and PARIS
ROME and PARIS: over 350 holiday rentals apartments listed: visit www.romanreference.com and www.parisreference.com or call +39 0648 903612.
Jewellery. RUFFS (Estd. 1904).
Goldsmiths by Design Welcome to Ruffs! You have found a company of Goldsmiths that specialises in the manufacture, amongst other
Spectator Business | Apollo Magazine
Corporate | Advertising | Privacy | Terms
Spectator, 22 Old Queen Street, London, SW1H 9HP
All Articles and Content Copyright ©2008 by The Spectator | All Rights Reserved
Toby Belch
June 22nd, 2007 5:56pmI guess that free market think tanks needs to work a bit harder :-))
max
June 23rd, 2007 12:31amNazir Ahmed appearing on France 24:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJdpknCqItM
4:24 into the program:
"Say for instance, the man who was refusing to acknowledge holocaust in Austria and who was sentenced to prison. Say if he was knighted, just tell me how our Jewish friends would feel..."
9:55 into the program:
"Tell me, why didn't you defend the man who was denying holocaust in Austria? Why didn't you come on tv and debated why is he being sent to prison? Not that I'm supporting it by the way. i'm just talking about the principle..."
A few points.
Firstly, he has the chutzpah to use the Holocaust to push his agenda after inviting a neo-Nazi to speak in the House of Lords.
Secondly, he pretends to care about his Jewish "friends'" feelings after inviting a neo-Nazi to speak in the House of Lords.
Thirdly, and I'm not sure of this; I'm not a native English speaker. In both cases he says 'holocaust' without using the definitive article which, to me at least, implies that he's not being entirely respectful of his Jewish "friends", to put it mildly (in addition he also referred to "those who deny the Armenian *alleged* genocide (4:45)).
If that's not an example of a dishonest scum, I don't know what is.