Charlescrawford

LATEST ARTICLES ( 189 )

• Guardian Heartbreak

  Now and then an article comes along that has an energetic ranting amusement factor but combines that with searching wisdom, thereby achieving certain immortalit... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Good and Bad Films: Who Decides?

  As you will know, latterly on my lonely dawg walks I have taken to listening to the libertarian feminist pacifist humanist teetotal podcast Double Feature and... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Do Libertarian Principles Favour Left Or Right? Yes

  The surging movement championed by President Obama towards gun control in the USA turns out to be a steady movement towards fewer controls. Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Assange - Now What? Not My Problem!

  Round at the FCO yesterday I had a chat with some people who know what they are talking about on the increasingly strange case of Julian Assange and the... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood

  Michael Totten, an American writer who likes to follow the action very closely at first hand, comes clean on his many mistakes regarding the slow rise and fairl... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Where Did US Policy in Egypt Go Wrong?

  My latest piece for PunditWire looks at some of the feeble messages emanating from President Obama's much heralded Cairo speech in 2009 and wonders if they... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Zimmerman Trial

  Some US trials mutate into epic morality plays or vasty political metaphors that (it is said) are a Microcosm of Society. Especially when there is a 'racial'... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Moore Meets Moore's Law

  Here is my latest piece for Commentator replying to Suzanne Moore in the Guardian who is fretting about what she sees as her loss of privacy and freedom at the... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Edward Snowden Sucks up to Dictators

  Every now and again an article comes along that assembles all one's own inchoate half-thoughts into a free-flowing stupendous whole. Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Manners Maketh Woman

  Here is a nicely turned piece by David Mitchell at the Observer (yes, it still exists) about manners. I think they both sound horrible and they deserve one... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Edward Snowden: Bewilderingly Stupid

  It is interesting how quickly these heroic WikiLeakers plummet into self-ridicule. Here is E Snowden moaning about his current situation: He says President Obam... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Back Again

  Long time no blog. I am in Warsaw to give masterclasses in Negotiation Skills to Polish officials. I have just spent the best part of an hour dictating into th... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• 321,587 Words on Public Speaking and Speechwriting

  You're wondering what I have been up to in May. I have been rushing around like a whirling dervish. Thus: • a presentation on Difficult Conversations to th... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• You Decide: The Betrayal of Colonel Redl

  What a great story over at PunditWire about the mysterious life and suicide in 1913 of Colonel Alfred Redl, a senior officer in the Austro-Hungarian Empire's... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Iran's Elections: Missing the Point

  Here is my latest piece over at Commentator, looking at the startlingly poor performance by a clueless State Department spokeswoman when asked to give a view... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Poland, Jews and Justice

  I expect that very few readers here have heard of Helena Wolinska-Brus. Here she is. A Polish Jewish woman (or even a Jewish Polish woman) who narrowly escaped... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• European Speechwriters Network: Women Speakers

  The latest European Speechwriters Network event in London has passed off well. Many top names from the world of British and wider speechwriting (Phil Collins,... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Why the State Fails at Complexity

  I have rambled on here on many occasions about how we all grapple increasingly badly with Complexity. I take my hat off to Kevin Williamson over at National... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Ambassador Partnership

  This is to let everyone know that ADRg Ambassadors LLP is now renamed The Ambassador Partnership LLP with a completely new (and simpler) website. Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Meanwhile, Back on Earth

  So much going on these days it is scarcely worth bothing to opine on it all. The Nigel Lawson call for the UK to think seriously about leaving the EU is a huge... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY