People of a right- wing disposition complain about the scores of rules and regulations put out by government. Let them stop and ponder the following: If ruthless people stopped breaking the normal rules of civilised conduct there would be no need for any regulations at all. If bankers stuck to lending to deserving businesses and …
Themed balls Trinity Hall is a Cambridge College. Students there organised a Japan-themed ball, for which they were severely criticised. Students at Pembroke College cancelled a party themed on Around the World in Eighty Days, for which they had also been taken to task for “cultural appropriation”. These criticisms are riddled with irony. The idea …
I am in the middle of two weeks of jury duty, or, at least, standing by for jury duty. Yesterday I wasn’t required (white, old and looks like he might be rude to the judge about the number of incarcerations in the US, maybe?). In any event, I had half the morning off, so, feeling …
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Upstanding conservatives believe that each of us must take personal responsibility for our actions – with one exception. Soldiers, it seems, can flout the law, because their job is so uniquely stressful. This was the argument put forward by lawyers for Sergeant Alexander Blackman, who in 2011 shot dead an injured, unarmed Taliban fighter, with …
Some while ago, in the Washington Post, Walter Pincus, an expert on the American military and a prominent critic, raised once again the scandal of the long-standing division of command in the military, something even Eisenhower couldn’t overcome. The rivalry between the three arms of the military is such that they constantly duplicate each other’s efforts. …
