Oliver Kamm needs no introduction to readers of these blogs and, together with Iain Dale, there scarcely seems any point doing profiles and yet there are readers outside the UK who might be less familiar; so here goes.

He appears to be currently semi-resting from blogging and instead engaged in writing his current book and a discussion of his Anti-Totalitarianism: the Left-Wing Case for a Neoconservative Foreign Policy appears on his blog-site. For a more complete profile, you can't go past his own bio.

One talking point about Oliver Kamm is his attitude towards western involvement in Iraq and he's posted many an article on this topic. Below are some of his thoughts on this:

We have no assurance that the struggle to establish a constitutional society in Iraq will succeed. But we can be certain that the security of the region and of ourselves, as well as the welfare of those to whom we have obligations, will be damaged if we fail to support Iraqis against theocratic and Ba'athist totalitarianism. We at least have the advantage in that struggle of having confronted Saddam at a time of our choosing. Nominally left wing, perhaps rational is a better description.

posted by james higham at Wednesday, July 26, 2006