Charlescrawford

LATEST ARTICLES ( 189 )

• Cyprus: Insolvency and National Sovereignty

  Here is an interesting (but not altogether clear) piece about Cyprus and 'national insolvency' by Stephen Kinsella at Harvard Business Review: ... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• IR Theory: Obama in Israel

  Further thoughts on the speech by President Obama in Israel (scroll down to see the earlier post from my PunditWire piece below). This time prompted by... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Press Regulation: Curbing 'Egregious Practices'

  My new piece at Commentator on how these new press 'regulations' might or might not tackle 'egregious practices': So we have no lack of sanctions in this area,... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Obama's Warm Words in Israel

  Swing by National Review Online to catch up on conservative views on President Obama's visit to Israel and what do you find? Not much. In fact almost nothing. Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Legacies of Empire

  Poland for many decades was carved up between the Tsarist Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Prussian Empire. How have the very different political... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Animal Consciousness

  A most elegant article by John Jeremiah Sullivan about consciousness in both humans and animals, describing how over many centuries human views on this subject... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Eurozone Wobbling Tightrope Walkers

  Back from sharing with the Croatian Diplomatic Academy some training thoughts on Lobbying and Negotiating in the European Union. With the Cyprus drama... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Remembering Zoran Djindic: 10 Years Later

  This week marks the 10th anniversary of the murder of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic. Here is the piece I wrote on the 8th anniversary. Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Churchill Public Speaking Competition 2013: More Please

  Just back from this year's Churchill Public Speaking Competition for schools at glorious Blenheim Palace. The format is interesting - and oddly difficult. Each... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Huhne v Pryce: Justice Resoundingly Done

  It's not usual that the world gets a chance to see almost live the words of a judge handing down a sentence. Yet today's sentencing of Chris Huhne and Vicky... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Compounding Stagnation? Meet Consequences.

  One recurring theme of this website is Consequences, and where they come from. My main conclusion after scrutinising the human race for some 50 years is that... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• PunditWire: Deflecting Blame

  Another piece by me at PunditWire that looks at a magnificent example of using language to demonstrate that 'really' the issue is about something else. Not a... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Sir Winston Churchill Public Speaking Project

  Preparations chez Crawford are intensifying for next week's fine Churchill Public Speaking Project event at Blenheim Palace at which schools compete to deliver... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• So. Farewell Then, Hugo Chavez

  

  This account by William J Dobson over at Slate of the miserable failure of Hugo Chavez is the best one I have read so far. It has some splendid lines: The... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• PunditWire Debut

  I am pleased and honoured to tell you that I have been accepted as part of the Punditwire team. Punditwire is a US website featuring the views of many top... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Airline Seat Prices

  Read this fine article at by Derek Thompson at The Atlantic on how the cost of flying has fallen so far over the decades: ... consumers have enjoyed an amazing... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Slow Death of #BigAid

  So there I was down at Bristol University at the weekend for the latest Bristol International Development Conference. An event impressive for the 200 or so... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• We Enter the Age of Cyborg Insects, Robo-Rats

  Remember this? ... let's also agree that we are at a technological and civilisational turning-point. For now these high-precision UAV/drones and their supportin... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• What Will Hutton 'Reveals' About His State of Mind

  I return from Spain to a truly dismal amateur-hour rant against 'free marketeers' by Will Hutton in the Guardian. It prompted me to opine over at Commentator:... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Spanish Fly

  We are off to southern Spain for a week - last year's summer holiday. So profound thoughts from me may be even sparser than usual, depending on the wifi. Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY