A Yellow Guard

I have been busy on a number of fronts recently so the blog has had to take something of a back seat.  If you know me though, you will have ...

I would appreciate comment from any lawyerly folks out there. I haven't been following the Pistorius trial very closely (hardly at all...

Why the Liberal Democrats love UKIP, and how Nick Clegg may be the saviour of the United Kingdom. It is a truism that in politics as in ...

http://alj.am/1il8DMZ Mozilla's co-founder and CEO is stepping down after a backlash over a $1000 donation he made to the Prop 8 plebisc...

Supreme court to hear internet defamation dispute - The Irish Times - Thu, Apr 03, 2014 I had blogged previously on the lack of clarity ...

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...

Alex Kane has written a very good article in The Newsletter , analysing in the starkest manner I have seen yet the complete failure of North...

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 ...

In the midst of a lot of other things happening, the death of Tony Benn slightly passed me by. Mark Hennessy has a rather simple but touchin...