A Yellow Guard

I am so frustrated by what has happened that I have found it difficult to take a step back and write a measured blog post about it, and inst...

The deaths of Michael Brown and Kajieme Powell in St. Louis have bothered me. They have bothered me not so much for their details, though I ...

It is ironic that at a time when Russia and its oligarchic politics is more at the forefront of American political consciousness than at any...

In my blog post yesterday , I encouraged readers to read Ta-Nehisi Coates' essay, 'Other People's Pathologies, in The Atlantic ....

Had the Union soundly and quickly defeated the Confederacy, it's very likely that slavery would have remained. Instead the war dragged ...

See the full "modest proposal" here. Not ever!

Senator Dick Burr: Dr. Martin, how many Canadians die on waiting lists each year, do you know? Dr. Martin: I don't sir, but I do kno...

In the past few days it has become very fashionable to rehabilitate Mitt Romney's foreign affairs credentials, and to assert that he wa...

If you have been confused about what has been happening in Ukraine over the past week and went online or picked up a paper to try and find o...

Tim Stanley has a good blogpost in The Telegraph , although I find his use of the phrase "new Cold War" as a lazy shorthand for...

I had previously mentioned the case of Herbert Smulls, a man executed by the State of Missouri before the United States Supreme Court had e...

The Washington Post today has an interesting profile of Judge Arenda Wright Allen who penned the historic judgment (covered in my last blogp...

In the latest of a succession of federal court judgments that have overturned states' bans on same-sex marriage, a federal judge ...

Way back in the day when for a few months I first gave writing a blog a bash, I wrote a post about an elderly British gentleman and his exp...

I got really annoyed on Thursday evening, when I read a comment on CNN in an article entitled ' Amanda Knox retrial verdict: Six thi...

Costco pays its workers 40% more , on average, than Sam's Club, and offers a very generous health insurance plan. Despite the prevail...

I was intrigued to see this tweet appear in my Twitter feed yesterday morning. Thank you @MittRomney for slow jamming the news with us l...

I have just watched this Top Gear clip courtesy of Duncan Borrowman *NB As far as I can see, the whole piece at the petrol station was fabri...

As The Grauniad reports this morning , George Bush's Republican administration disembursed $12 billion in cash in Iraq in a period of l...

There are a lot of very good reasons to question the value for the U.K. of having such a close relationship with the United States, but wit...