Charlescrawford

LATEST ARTICLES ( 189 )

• EU Budget - Gurgling Down?

  

  Here's my Telegraph Blogs piece this morning on the news coming from Brussels that mirabile dictu the EU Budget may in fact not grow over the coming seven year... Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Guardian Grammar

  Good idea. An online English grammar test over at the Guardian. But what's this? I got one wrong!? Identify which of the following nouns are abstract and/or... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Racism and Adoption

  Here is another Commentator piece from me on a subject with moral content, namely how far is it appropriate to take into account the ethnicity (or 'race') of... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Chris Huhne: Should We Gloat, Or Not?

  Over on Twitter I have been having some 140-character exchanges with erudite writer and thinker Bryan Appleyard @BryanAppleyard on the fascinating subject of ho... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• To Intervene Or Not?

  

  Over at Backbencher Lee Jenkins takes a look at some issues surrounding 'international intervention' from a libertarian-inclining standpoint: Yet international... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Spending Public Money

  Rummaging around in some of my former work, I had another look at this piece I wrote back in November about the decline and fall of Denis MacShane: Warsaw was a... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Power of Vocabulary

  Does it matter if you have a limited vocabulary? Yes it does, according to this magnificent piece by E D Hirsch Jr: Why should vocabulary size be related to... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• But as a Speech?

  My piece for The Commentator on the PM's UK/EU speech as a speech: ... Those sentences, like the opening blather about the origins of the European Union, are... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• David Cameron's Speech: UK/EU

  

  Here is my Telegraph Blogs take on The Speech: The core Cameron calculation turns on his probably shrewd calculation that the centre of gravity of the British... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Negotiating with Terrorists

  Have the Algerian authorities messed up this ghastly crisis, by forcing a deadly showdown? One view says yes. Even if the terrorists had started killing the... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Bilbo Baggins' Contract

  Before the Internet how would we ever have been able to read a magnificent analysis by James Daily of the contract presented to Bilbo by the dwarves? The... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• EU - Who Wins, Who Loses?

  Here is an elegant bit of work by Jonathan Golub (golub means pigeon in Serbian, by the way) attempting to measure which EU member states are better at getting... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• #Spelltower

  If you like words and like to think, kiss your life goodbye and get the Spelltower app. Basically, it's an 8x12 grid (on one's iPhone), where a range of... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Liberty v Government

  It's always worth reading anything written by the prolific and perceptive Walter Russell Mead. Here he is on how we need to invent Liberalism 5. Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Rock 'n' Roll? Meet Diplomacy!

  

  Unless you have really been paying attention for a very long time, you will have missed my various attempts to share examples of diplomatic themes appearing in... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• More on (Moron) UK/EU

  Just when you thought it safe to return to the water, here's me over at Commentator on the astounding idea of the Consent of the Governed: Back in Europe the... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• That EU Debate Intensifies

  Imagine you're a member of the public mulling over EU issues and the future of the UK/EU relationship. Your heart must sink at the prospect of assorted former... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Shooting Dead People

  If you shoot someone and kill them. you are said to shoot them dead. But this can cause all sorts of grammar difficulties: "Police shoot dead homeless man". Doe... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Hullo. It's Me Again

  I have been away from here for a while, mustering my thoughts and surviving Christmas. Basically, I now have to work for my living. Various happy schemes and... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2013 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Wet Christmas

  As I plus dawg plodded through the sodden fields this Christmas morning (after yesterday narrowly being missed by a falling waterlogged tree as it crashed on... Read more

  Posted on 25 December 2012 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY