When you’re in a hole, you don’t need a spade
by Stephen Tall on June 16, 2006
My favourite commentator (probably), the Financial Times’s Philip Stephens, published a fascinating article last Thursday, The UN serves US interests, noting the pained emasculation of the USA’s ambassador to the UN – the neo-con’s neocon – John Bolton: The ambassador, (…)
Perceiving Gordon Brown
by Stephen Tall on June 16, 2006
That perception is everything (or very nearly) is, I imagine, the most depressing canon for those actively involved in public life. It must be a thought that frequently troubles our Chancellor, and Premier-apparent, Gordon Brown. Today’s thread over at PoliticalBetting.com (…)
Small mercies: count ‘em
by Stephen Tall on June 16, 2006
Whatever else might be said about our Prime Minister, Tony Blair, we can at least be grateful he’s not George W. Bush.The President’s gauche exchange with LA Times reporter Peter Wallsten has unsurprisingly attracted some adverse comment, not least from (…)
