Is aid a waste of time and money?
Wednesday, June 29th, 2005A discussion about the pros and cons of aid.
Entries in June, 2005
Wimbledon again
Monday, June 27th, 2005Wimbledon fortnight is here again and all the Brits are out before the first weekend.
African successes and the role of aid
Monday, June 27th, 2005Fascinating and encouraging article about the economic progress and successes registered by Tanzania and a raft of other African countries in recent years.
Live Aid, the NGOs, and the Ethiopian famine
Monday, June 27th, 2005My reply to David Rieff’s criticism of Live Aid
Telling a man by his books
Tuesday, June 14th, 2005In response to popular demand, expressed variously in other people’s blogs as a ‘meme’ or a ‘tig’ (neither of which terms I understand), I join other contributors in answering four challenging questions – challenging, because blogging, emailing, cycling aimlessly round Wandsworth, listening to Radio 3, and watching the 24-hour news programmes on television leave [...]
The UK rebate and the EU budget battle
Sunday, June 12th, 2005I doubt if Blair and Brown are worried
The easy way to monitor those blogs
Saturday, June 11th, 2005Software to read blogs with.
That hateful religious hatred Bill
Saturday, June 11th, 2005Once again the government is seeking parliamentary approval for the religious hatred Bill which has been repeatedly condemned and rejected on all sides, from far left to far right, as an unconscionable and unenforceable assault on freedom of speech and expression.
Notable features of the Bill include the absence of any attempt to define ‘religion’ or [...]
The Federation of the United Kingdom is here
Tuesday, June 7th, 2005The paradox highlighted by Tam Dalyell’s West Lothian Question (why should Scottish MPs at Westminster be allowed to vote on English domestic matters while they would not be allowed to vote on Scottish domestic matters, which are dealt with by the Scottish Assembly?) reflects the anomaly in our constitution created by devolution. With what amount [...]
Photos in Flickr
Sunday, June 5th, 2005A nice web program for sharing family pictures
