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Peak Craig Murray in Uzbekistan

Former UK ambassador Craig Murray too has a sharp new website look. He goes from strength to strength despite some sad family news, and credit is definitely due: We seem to be hitting peak Craig Murray. Before the hiatus of the last month or so, 40,000 people were regularly reading […]

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Craig Murray – Spurned by the SNP!

Veteran readers will recall my various pieces here about former UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan turned voluble radical contrarian, Craig Murray. Read them all here. He is back in the news again, in what the Scots wittily term a braw stooshie (fine old ding-dong). His bid to run as a candidate for […]

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Craig Murray: Reborn, But Not Intervening

Craig’s made a big effort to change his website. Here’s the result. Definitely a cleaner, sharper ‘look’, although some might wonder about his self-description: Former Ambassador, Human Rights Activist   The experts in such matters always say that it’s best to brand yourself in terms of what you do now and […]

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Craig Murray: Crazed Thinking

Craig Murray as ever tries to steer a course which no-one else has ever steered. And crashes. Here he is talking about the impact of the weather: A combination of crazed right wing thinking and crazed left wind thinking, so typical of the UK, is why our airports are rubbish… […]

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Craig Murray Misleads Again

Lib Dem Ministers Complicit in Torture Scary, huh? I always thought they were prim, well-meaning political vegetarians, not raging carnivore fascistoid extremists. But Craig Murray knows different. (Warning: he displays a large picture of an Uzbek torture victim.) Behold Craig’s attempt at analysis of Sir John Sawers’ speech yesterday: These are […]

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Craig Murray’s Stunning Hypocrisy!

Update:  see in the Comments a terrific contribution from Michael S who gives excellent background * * * * * Craig is back with us, this time sniping at the British Ambassador in Tashkent, Rupert Joy. What has Rupert Joy done wrong this time? Shock! He’s attended a fashion event led by […]

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Craig Murray Whirs Away

Former Ambassador turned ‘activist’ Craig Murray is a commendable phenomenon for self-publicity. His website now attracts a considerable following, far higher than this modest effort. But he achieves this in part by rehashing old FCO material, and noisily claiming to gullible readers that it shows all sorts of things (eg ‘complicity […]

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Craig Murray: More Corruption And Hypocrisy

Craig Murray rumbles in Tashkent: There is much consternation at the apparent decline of Gulnara Karimova’s multi-billion dollar company, Zeromax – which owns Uzbekistan’s most valuable economic assets … Gulnara is of course the daughter and favoured successor of dictator "President" Islam Karimov. And we all recall what an appalling piece of […]

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Craig Murray And Charles Crawford: Coalescing, At Last!

Craig Murray came out for the Lib Dems and so finds himself in the novel position of supporting a Conservative-led coalition: I can say that I can broadly support this government and am convinced that it will be an improvement on the bunch of authoritarian war criminals who have been […]

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Craig Murray: More Mashed Potatoes

Craig is at it again: New Labour’s Complicity in Torture – Truly Evil I have now obtained under the Freedom of Information Act a heavily censored copy of one of my telegrams from Tashkent protesting at the use by the UK government of intelligence obtained under torture. Every British person […]

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