8:09am
I don't see any purpose in offering you my views on what's been going on in Georgia when there are so many more expert commentators around (see here, here and here).
What fascinates me is the pathology of tyrant worship which exists in some writers.
I suppose it is entirely to be expected that someone who hero worships a mass murderer would describe Russia's attacks as liberation for South Ossetia. But there are plenty of others out there, to whom I won't link (I am linking to Clark because I have previously provided numerous links to his site as an example of distortion in the cause of bully-worship).
Is it enough to describe such people - accuate though it may be - as buffoons? I don't think it is. I am curious as to the mindset of those who deliberately blind themselves to evidence and...
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4:17pm
Sorry about the silence the past three days. Back to normal any moment...
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1:09pm
Tim Worstall has an excellent post at Spectator Business on the reality of the global market for talent. And, rather graifyingly, he takes Polly Toynbee down a peg or two.
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12:22pm
Here's my theory: the BBC's casually misleading attitude to news- its refusal to accept that Israel ever has a case for self-defence, its failure to label terrorism as terrorism, its sneering reporting of anything which doesn't fit into its left-liberal prejudices - is now so deep a part of its culture that its own executives don't even realise that their own deeply misleading statements (I'm being charitable) are so easy to spot.
This morning's reaction to the sale of Test cricket rights to Sky is a case in point.
Sky paid £300 million for five years. The BBC decided not to complete. It says the price was too high (although rumour has it that the sum paid to buy the rights to Formula 1 was £150 million for the same period).
Giles Clarke, the ECB chairman, has this morning been lambasting the BBC for failing to put in a...
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10:46am
I wrote last month about one of the problems with M&S. But it's clear that there is a lot more wrong with M&S than its obsession with Ms Klass.
Yesterday I had some spare time and wandered in to the Oxford Street branch as I needed a pair of shoes. Will I never learn?
It's been a good couple of years since I was there, but I remembered that one of the strong points of M&S shoes is that they are nothing fancy - good solid traditional shoes - and that one can try on all sorts of shapes and sizes easily.
No more. First, it seemed as if they didn't have a single pair of 'normal' shoes - the entire range now appears to consist of 'designer' shoes with all sorts of trendy designs and patterns on the...
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