This is how a pragmatist understands US foreign policy in conjunction with the Iranian nuclear weapons crisis! Yesterday morning I wrote a short commentary on the Obama administration's lack of understanding about Iran and that country's quest to obtain nuclear weapons. The writing was in response to reports of new sanctions being placed on Iran by Washington that were ostensibly designe...

1. My book manuscript is finished (for better or worse), so I soon hope to be using the space that Galrahn has graciously granted for something more than self-promotion. In particular, I plan to return to the idea of writing a series on seapower in fiction. However, also expect some more book reviews, mostly associated with recent work on the airpower manuscript.  2. Until then, self-promotio...

Hopi Sen insists that In the Black Labour (ITBL) is a Keyensian project. He explains that “fiscal conservatism does not entail short-term fiscal stupidity” and compares ITBL’s publication now to writing a paper in the winter telling people to prepare for spring. The message is that once the need for fiscal stimulus to revive the economy has passed, the principles of ITBL – ...

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Ed Miliband MP, Leader of the Opposition, writing on his blog today, said: Having returned from the meeting of business, media and politics in Davos to the storm around RBS bonuses, I would like to offer some broader perspective on this debate. It was only my second time in Davos, but what struck me was that – even there - the issue of how to make capitalism more responsible is firmly on the...

Open Europe reports on comments by europlastic George Eustice MP. Writing in the Western Morning News, Camborne and Redruth MP George Eustice cites findings from Open Europe’s new report on EU structural funds, which found that if regional policy were devolved back to the UK government, Cornwall could receive an extra £207 million in funding over the next seven years. He argues that &l...

"More people have heard of Tom Cruise than Ben Bernanke, but that doesn’t mean that Bernanke hasn’t had a bigger impact on their life." Matt Zwolinski, a blogger at the recently expanded "Bleeding Heart Libertarian" group blog. He's writing about the benefits and costs of intellectual versus political activism, as relating to Ron Paul. The failure of Tom Cruise to influenc...

Answering a question on a Scottish piece of writing is to become compulsory in Higher English under plans from the Scottish government.

Up to one in four incidents ignored by police should have been recorded as a crime, the police watchdog warned today.

Writing for telegraph.co.uk, Lord Mackay of Clashfern, the former Conservative lord chancellor, explains why he will challenge the Coalition in the Lords today.