Charles Crawford is a Contributing Editor to The Commentator. A former British Ambassador in Sarajevo, Belgrade and Warsaw, he is now a private consultant and writer: www.charlescrawford.biz. He tweets at @charlescrawford
Hurrah for Governor Walker and honest money
Walker's victory in Wisconsin is terrific not only for him, but for the moral principle of honest money too
- 7 June 2012
When conservatives help Communists commit atrocities
Leftist criminals and their slippery apologists are vile. But sometimes we too have a walk-on accomplice role in their infamy
- 29 May 2012
Monbiot v Chomsky: Left v Truth
There is nothing but despair in Chomsky-style communism and collectivism; Monbiot is somewhere in the middle and deserves our pity for wanting to believe
- 22 May 2012
A world tour of addictive stupidity
Addiction to welfare, deliberately promoted for reckless political aims, is capable of extraordinary damage. The West is about to find out the hard way leaving the door open for a grand circle of history
- 8 May 2012
The limits of auto-pilot altruism
Note that generosity has many forms, including commitment and creativity. Don’t let others define for you the form and limits of your generosity. And, above all, remember where any wealth comes from
- 30 April 2012
Art vs Insult
It does not matter whether something is racist or sexist or Islamphobic or anything else. The only issue is control of the language as the key to controlling the policy and thus controlling people
- 23 April 2012
Katyn: Little guilt, no honour
The ECHR has criticised Russian authorities' reluctance to recognise the reality of the Katyn Massacre. What should the rest of us in modern Europe make of it?
- 17 April 2012
The Left is still rehashing mumbo-jumbo from Karl Marx
No mention of Marx’s racism of course. But the real problem is that Marx just didn’t understand economics
- 1 April 2012
George Monbiot's abject failure to understand Ayn Rand
One of the Guardian's most stereotypical writers gets Ayn Rand completely wrong
- 7 March 2012
"Deschooling Society"? The Left has its reasons
How the British Left is attempting to downplay the importance of good writing for its own sinister aims
- 5 March 2012
Scottish independence? Consider the break-up of the USSR and Yugoslavia for some lessons
A former British ambassador, with intimate knowledge of what happens when states break up, considers the implications of a disintegration of the United Kingdom
- 19 February 2012
Droning on: The politics and wisdom of UAV warfare
The problem with drones is not 'cowardly politicians' nor 'cowardly soldiers'. It is rather the fact that the way in which we look at these questions needs a completely new set of rules and principles
- 1 February 2012
Tony Blair and torture in Libya
Blair, Libya, torture and rendition: What did Labour leaders know and when did they know it? asks former UK ambassador Charles Crawford
- 15 January 2012
Why the state can never deliver great public services
The standardisation needed to deliver what would count as equality of treatment for all can be achieved only by deliberately excluding competition and any serious incentives to improve services, says former UK ambassador Charles Crawford
- 8 January 2012
Ayn Rand would have backed David Cameron's stand against the EU's "second handers"
Former British Ambassador Charles Crawford applauds David Cameron's willingness to see Britain "isolated"
- 16 December 2011
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