Folks, no one “made Haiti poor”.
Stephen Pollard's blog
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A crook in a police uniform
February 9, 2010 |
The Daily Mail deserves huge credit for its reporting of Ali Dizaei. While other papers have been as fearful as his Met bosses of reporting his true nature, the Mail has for some years been on his case. I'd urge you to read their account in today's paper of his career. I'm not sure what is more jaw dropping: what he actually did, or the way in which the most senior policemen in the country cowed before him. Astonishing stuff. |
Palestinian reality check
February 8, 2010 |
There's a superb column by Barry Rubin in today's Jerusalem Post, which introduces a reality check into some of the praise heaped on Salam Fayyad after his speech at the Herzliya conference (which I was at). Do read the whole thing, but his key point is that whilst the fact of his presence, and his tone, might have been conciliatory, the content was anything but. |
Debating the debates
February 8, 2010 |
Max Arkinson has a clever proposal with regard to the ongoing negotiations on the party leaders' election debate: |
Parallel universe
February 2, 2010 |
The most astonishingly wrong sentence I have read anywhere this year, from Mary Dejevsky in the Independent:
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Channel 4's new chief executive David Abraham
January 22, 2010 |
I thought I’d share my encounter with David Abraham, C4's new chief executive, with you. A few years ago, when I was working on the Express, we held an awayday for execs. We’d just appointed Mr Abraham’s then company, the ever-so-trendy St Luke’s, as our ad agency. (I’ll leave for another time the unspeakably bad, beyond mere embarrassing ads they came up with for us). So the editor thought it would be useful to ask them along to the awayday. |
Thursday counts a must
January 19, 2010 |
The first useful thing John Bercow has done as Speaker. Responding to a Point of Order yesterday by Julian Lewis on the apparent drift towards Friday ballot counts at the forthcoming general election, Mr Speaker has made clear that this is simply unacceptable: |
Doing us a favour
January 19, 2010 |
The JC website received its highest ever number of hits the day after we were hacked. Thanks, chaps. |
No one made Haiti poor
January 18, 2010 |
Tim Worstall has an aposite comment on some of the trite comments which have been doing the rounds about Haiti: |
The MCB's unconfirmed confirmed guests
January 18, 2010 |
The MCB, newly readmitted to Whitehall, has been emailng flyers for It advertises the following:
Chris Grayling - a 'confirmed guest' who is, er, 'to be |
Virgin Trains' theft of my money
January 18, 2010 |
Virgin Trains, eh? I was supposed to be travelling to Manchester on 10th January. For obvious reasons - the snow and winds - Virgin cancelled all trains. No complaints there. But here's the thing. It cost me over £100 for my ticket. And despite repeated attempts since then to contact Virgin by phone, email and letter. no one has responded to my request to find out how to claim a refund for a service that was not provided. The Virgin website has nothing. The customer services department is permanently engaged. And my emails and letter have been unanswered. |