Readers of this blog will recall that the European Union received its Nobel Peace Prize for, among other reasons, bringing peace and prospe...

At the end of Conan Doyle's wonderful story, His Last Bow , Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson have trussed up the German spy and are about ...

In my previous posting I mentioned that the Chairman of the Norwegian Peace Prize Committee had an interesting political career. I was the...

The news of the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to the EU, apart from causing a great deal of entertainment, has also provided the Leader of...

Readers of this blog would have guessed what that title is about. Yes, indeed, it is the news this morning that the European Union, enmired ...

Questions are being asked about one of the trio of women who shared the Nobel Peace Prize this year. It seems that the party she belongs to...

Later today the Nobel Peace Prize will not be awarded to Liu Xiaobo because he happens to be in a Chinese prison for publishing material tha...

Because this year's Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a Chinese dissident, Liu Xiaobo, still in prison in China (when will Wikileaks pub...

Glenn Reynolds links to a story about Liu Xiaobo's wife, the Chinese police and quotes some comments about Thomas Friedman's desir...

Nobel Peace Prize goes to Chinese dissident and not to somebody who regularly disses the United States and the West. Wow! Man bites dog. Mi...

Some are impressed by the fact that President Obama proclaimed himself to be unworthy of the Noble Peace Prize in his acceptance speech (but...

Regardless of what is going on in the world and the debate that will not die about the honesty of scientific research that is feeding the wa...

It is time to have a break, albeit a short one, from the Obama Peace Prize story, but before I do so, I thought I'd quote something one ...

It is not possible to enumerate all the people who seem to think that awarding Obama the Nobel Peace Prize (by the Norwegian Nobel Committe...

I had to check my calendar when I saw the news that President Obama, whose achievements up to date have been nil apart from raising the def...

When that gasbag and failed politician Al Gore received his Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for a documentary that even he admitted was based on f...