2017-07-25 15:05
Is this thing still on? Apparently so
Anyway, i'm making a flying visit to talk Corbyn and Euroscepticism. Was he really a Brexiteer all along? There seem to be some shall we say hyper-exten… Read More
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2016-03-19 18:53
Yes, everyone. Dick might have gone to China, but ultimately his kungfu was weak Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
For the past three days, residents of this City in Southwest Guangdong have been protesting against a planned PX plant: After sunset, furious crowds gathered again in front of the government… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Tom Polgar, last CIA head of station in Saigon, is dead. He accounts for himself at that time here, assuming this isn't too good to be true. Read it anyway Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
I said downpage that I wasn't sure the students occupying the Taiwanese legislature could get the numbers on the street to support their action. Looks like they can: More than 100,000 Taiwan… Read More
2015-10-07 13:57
So the Health Secretary wants us to work like the Chinese. You could write a pretty long historical monologue on the idea of work as embodied in perceptions of the Chinese people, but i… Read More
2015-10-01 15:04
Yes, it's been a while and I've gone all 'Slate Pitch' as they say. Anyway, here goes.
I've been following football hooligan twitter for a while now, mainly because of the way that the lads… Read More
2015-08-27 19:23
When the Discipline Inspectors came for Yang Dongliang, head of the State Administration of Work Safety in the wake of the Tianjin explosion, People's Daily online was on the case.
When the… Read More
2015-06-24 22:19
File this under really stupid things somehow worth doing.
"Several of these countries have little freedom of press and expression. Tourists are rare. Visas for photographers were hard to co… Read More
2015-05-26 16:37
I have an op-ed up at the National on the pro-independence turn in Hong Kong politics.
Elsewhere, James has an examination in Vice on the shuanggui process, the means by which boss Xi and th… Read More
2015-05-17 18:24
How much do you want high speed rail? Enough to riot when you don't have it?
Tens of Thousands of residents of the southwestern county of Linshui gathered in the morning and marched about 3… Read More
2015-05-01 16:09
Just over a week ago we got a letter addressed to my stepson. This happens occasionally, though he's long since moved out. We bin the obvious junk and keep the other stuff for when he comes… Read More
2015-04-14 15:02
150 years ago today Read More
2015-04-04 21:06
So, there's a book out on the tendence apocalyptique in US politics. Those folks got around:
...missionaries Ralph and Edith Norton meet with Mussolini in the early 1930s to interview him f… Read More
2015-04-04 21:06
So, there's a book out on the tendence apocalyptique in US politics. Those folks got around:
...missionaries Ralph and Edith Norton meet with Mussolini in the early 1930s to interview him f… Read More
2015-04-04 20:07
I'm easing back into blogging with a few cut and paste jobs. Like about the time that Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman ran an ice cream parlour:
"But where to get enough money for the pur… Read More
2015-03-29 18:08
I've got an op-ed up about the various discussions following David Shambaugh's recent prediction of the forthcoming endgame of Communist Party rule in China. Over here: Read More
2015-03-22 17:35
The first thing that struck me about the Afzal Amin story last night was that someone who has - apparently - been involved with population centric counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan f… Read More
2015-03-17 20:13
'As examples of Chinese air rage go, what happened at Okinawa airport on March 9 was no big deal.'
I have something up at the National in which I consider the remarkable amount of air rage… Read More
2015-03-10 20:07
So if I haven't been doing much writing recently, at least I got to do a bit of commissioning. On Saturday the folks at NK News. Org issued a tweet asking for suggestions for the… Read More
2015-02-28 18:42
Re the murder of Boris Nemtsov, it's worth bearing this in mind:
Nemtsov’s allies were divided on whom to blame for the murder. Some pointed a finger at the Kremlin, since the crime t… Read More
2015-02-19 15:25
Happy Lunar New Year, folks. There's some debate over whether it's the year of the goat or the sheep. If you're David Icke, of course, or one of UKIP's wackier supporters, every year is the… Read More
2015-02-13 15:11
I'm increasingly convinced that stuff like this is the wrong way of looking at it. I don't think we're looking at people led through religious ideology to barbarism; we're looking at people… Read More
2015-02-12 14:27
Here is the anthem of the Cyberspace Administration of China, the agency with overall responsibility for internet censorship, as sung by staff of that august body at a lunar new year talent… Read More
2015-02-05 20:45
There were five sorts of “flames of war.” The sort that had a sharp tip and flared up straight was a beacon fire. The sort that had a diffused purplish light was the fire… Read More
2015-02-05 12:41
So, James starts as he means to go on:
Turning down an after-dinner invite to a brothel is always a social minefield.
And continues:
Some of this may be a thing of the past, at leas… Read More
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