That’s it from Ballots & Bullets for 2013. It’s been a great year here on the blog.
We had updates for both the Ballots and the Bullets. This year … Read the rest
Month: December 2013
1) What will become of the May 2015 UK Parliament if Scotland votes ‘Yes’ on Independence?
The timetable for a Scottish Independence referendum in October 2014 and, if that … Read the rest
Singapore, an affluent city-state, is known for being orderly and conformist. So the riots that took place on the night of the 8 December in the Little India district … Read the rest
While other actors are remembered because they were Hamlet, Phedre, or Cleopatra, Ellen Terry is remembered because she was Ellen Terry.
So wrote the writer Virginia Woolf of Ellen … Read the rest
This is the thirty-first in a series of posts that report on the state of the parties as measured by opinion polls. By pooling together all the available polling … Read the rest
Berlioz’s life was so arranged that he was not accustomed to seeing unusual phenomena.
But Satan is visiting the brave new world of Soviet Moscow and bent on mischief. … Read the rest
Recently, I presented at a workshop at Roskilde University (Denmark) titled ‘Structural Adjustment Comes to Europe’ (14-15 November). One of the primary aims of the workshop was to discuss … Read the rest
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) is developing in the Sahara/Sahel countries as the recent multiple terrorist attacks and the Mali war show. Benefiting from the porous border, weak … Read the rest
Carl von Clausewitz’s On War requires a patient reader. It is disjoined, unfinished, conceptually outdated and even contradictory at times. But it remains the single most important book … Read the rest
‘Scarcely popular’ and ‘seldom acted’. So the famous Shakespearean scholar AC Bradley observed of Shakespeare’s tragedy Coriolanus. Nevertheless we have seen a series of new productions, notably in … Read the rest