Wednesday, 21 April 2010

Tuesday, 20th April 2010

Stuffed?

10:55am


Yesterday, I wrote in the Daily Mail that David Cameron’s hope’n’change strategy of repositioning the Tories on the left, in the stupid belief that this was the way to win the trust of British voters, had left him totally unable to deal with the Nick Clegg phenomenon. His paralysis was plain for all to see in last Thursday’s TV talent show. Trying to puncture the Clegg bubble by personalised election homilies from his garden won’t help either. It’s what Cameron is actually saying that matters. And he’s still not saying what he needs to say, because he hasn’t understood that his problem lies with his entire strategy. Saying as he said yesterday from the shrubberies of Notting Hill that ‘only the Tories could blow apart the old way of doing things’ merely shows that the Cameroons really, really don’t...

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Monday, 19th April 2010

Obama brings a smile to his country's enemies

12:03pm


Two commentators who have called Obama correctly from the start have duly eviscerated his emasculation of American defences inspiring example to rid the world of nuclear weapons. On NRO the peerless Mark Steyn, observing how Obama equates the threat to world peace from democracies and tyrannies, notes:

The mound of corpses being piled up around the world today is not from high-tech nuclear states but from low-tech psycho states. It’s not that Britain has nukes and poor old Sudan has to make do with machetes. It’s that the machete crowd is willing to kill on an industrial scale and the high-tech guys can’t figure out a way to stop them. Perhaps for his next pointless yakfest the president might consider a machete nonproliferation initiative.

Also on NRO John Bolton observes that there are many reasons to...

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