General elections in Bosnia

One word absolutely not on the lips of political hacks, not even Tory political hacks, is… Abortion. Not this week, not any week. It’s impolite conversation inside the beltway.

But a post here last year (picked apart here) attracted over 250 comments. Just publishing the word is pure Google-juice. Everyone in the real world has an opinion, so why does nobody in political Britain want to discuss abortion in public? It can’t be that 186,274 (2001 data; pdf) annual terminations don’t warrant justification or inquiry. Read More

The Marxist fallacy
Work and prosperity since 1973

Terror in the classroom
Narcissism, 7/7 and America’s school shootings

A unified theory of stupidity on terrorism
Professional failures of intelligence

Lomborg and global poverty

The horror, the horror
Will someone please stop Reid

The all-new Scottish blogging roundup

Britblog Roundup #85

Tories unveil their secret weapon: ‘webcameron’
Kitchen sink politics for disaffected bloggers