Good old BBC, you can always rely on them for a bit of revisionism.  According to one of the BBC’s tame gardeners, the 1600s was the best time to be British. At first I was a little confused on account of there not being a British nation until 1707, then I thought perhaps she was being

Paul Krugman has a reasonably to the point Op-ed in the New York Times today. It starts off like this: I’m concerned about Europe. Actually, I’m concerned about the whole world — there are no safe havens from the global economic storm. But the situation in Europe worries me even more than the situation in America. and

I see that Irish President Mary McAleese has been indluging her hobby of historical revisionism again, this time claiming that tens of thousands of Irishmen joined the British Army in an attempt to avoid poverty rather than out of a sense of partiotism. I'm with Lord Maginnis on this when he wrily observes.... "The whole idea that men joined the Army to keep their families off the bread line ...

Blogpower were always going to reply and they have done so, writing of "JMB and Ian Grey so undeservedly tarnished by some of your comments" and accusing my "version" of events "revisionism". That is a euphemistic way of saying I was lying. This puts it on a whole new plane. If you care to read the posts properly, it will be seen that the admins have been "very deservedly called out over this". Th...

A disgraceful piece of anti-Semitic historical revisionism appears in today’s Independent newspaper, which tries to rehabilitate the Slovenian Nazis, or Domobrantsvo/ (Slowenische Landeswehr) as misunderstood patriots, betrayed by the British. The Domobrantsvo are shown here in the picture swearing an oath of allegiance on Hitler’s birthday in 1945. Jugoslavia had emerged as a multi-et...

h Europe's greatest living democrat tells it like it is to Europe's MEPS, and they don't like it one bit!!! This speech is the most important one made anywhere in the world this year. Europe could still be saved from bureaucratic Soviet-style oblivion, but only if Klaus and a tiny few number of judges in Germany succeed in stopping the process. The world without a democratic Europe ...

This bloke reports on financial matters for NPR. For the last several centuries, for the most part, most of the wealth in the world stayed in Europe, then started moving to the United States. Jeepers. Very little wealth "moved". More was created. That he starts out from the zero sum position tells you all you need to know

The show starts starts today as Obama, Hillary and other Obama Administration functionaries prepare to meet a bevy of world leaders: The nation's capital is gearing up for a very busy couple of days. President Obama opens a summit on nuclear security Monday with dozens of world leaders scheduled to attend. Mr. Obama said Sunday that he was pleased by their sense of urgency and warned that al ...

Labour and the Conservatives clash over recent comments made by Ken Clarke on Tory European policy.

Legal and professional services launch a campaign to promote London as a world centre to resolve disputes, such as the case against Abramovich