Severe dearth of posts here lately, I know. It won't get better any time soon, I'm afraid.
Meanwhile:
- Damian spots a family resemblance.
- Wretchard gives some fascinating perspective on China's strategic conundrum. His conclusions are oddly reassuring. If he's right, a showdown over Taiwan could be postponed indefinitely, or even avoided completely.
- Oxblog has been in Afghanistan, I perceive.
- Clive strikes again, with one of the few sensible comments that the average LRB reader will get this month. (Via Oliver Kamm.) Also from Oliver: why you should vote Labour. Not because of the party, but because of its leader. Now that both my hot-button issues - the Chinese arms embargo and the religious-hate bill - are on the back burner, it's a position I can endorse. Blair has been there where it counted in overthrowing the world's two worst tyrannies. Next to that, waiting lists, exclsuion orders and interest rates are just nowhere.
- An earlier generation had to deal with the same sort of things and in much the same way. (Via Harry.) Or to put it another way, the issues of today have a family resemblance to the issues of decades ago. These good folk have a campaign on the subject which is at least worth noting.