More miscellaneous links (all political)

The neocon conspiracy:

• Alan Johnson and Stephen Pollard on neo-conservatism and "neo-conservatism" (via Noga). There was a very good article by Danny Finkelstein on a similar topic in the JC some time not long ago, but I can't find it on line.
  

Stoning women in Iran:

• Cedar Lounge

French reverence for Lenin:

• Charles Bremner in the Times

Obama and Reagan:

• Obama gives credit where its due

Anarchism and the abandonment of common sense:

• Ian Bone shows his common sense

Fisking the fools:

• The Fat Man picks up Norm's word "smugism" and runs with it, as it were, all over that liberal twat John Gray

• Hocemo Li Na Kafu? on why it is time to start Neil Clarke-bashing (by which I mean literally, physically)

A clash of fundamentalisms?

• Mick Hartley gives another example of what I was talking about here.

Beauty in ruins

• All of the posts at Greater Surbiton are of excellent quality, so I am ashamed I haven't linked to very many. Here is one to wet your appetite, on the destruction of Serbia's oldest theatre. [P.S. Second Hand Conjecture has done a really nice introduction to Greater Surbiton.]