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When the British Conservative Party decides to make a mess of things, it does so in style. Last night, Mrs. Thatcher’s tatty successors did it again. Battered, humiliated, and crushed in two successive general elections, the Tories are now identified with precisely one popular policy, their opposition to any attempt to abandon the Pound in favor of the European Union’s laughable single currency, the Euro. So last night, when Conservative MPs had the task of narrowing the shortlist of candidates for the party’s leadership down to two contenders, what did they do? Why, naturally they gave the most votes to [...]
Another Fine Mess
July 18, 2001
The Serbs made a furtive sale and a dirty trade. It was a handover made in exchange for a dollop of aid and a whitewashed reputation. You do not have to be either an admirer of Milosevic or a worrier about black helicopters to find it more than a little distasteful. Last weekend’s events in Belgrade and The Hague may have been a short-term victory for Uncle Sam, but, in the longer term, they may come to be seen as a disaster. What they really represented was a triumph for a form of intrusive international jurisprudence that already represents a [...]
Rough Justice
July 5, 2001