At the risk of boring you all to death, I link to my new Telegraph Blogs piece on #Assange.

Many excellent and pertinent comments:

Penned by a gutless burocrat who spent his entire worthless career cowering inside a British Embassy, knowing that no matter what garbage he wrote, he was safe from interference by the local authorities. And yet now Charles Bunter Crawford inveighs in favour of armed intervention to "go in" and take out Assange?? Yarooooo, you chaps!! The Fat Owl is spouting again!!!

What Chuck Crwford (sic) is really advocating for is, an end to investigative journalism in the world. If the United States can reach out and destroy a journalist who isn’t a US citizen and who didn’t "commit" their journalism on US soil then, they will have the power to censor journalism all over the world. One would think someone who supposedly writes about stuff for a living like, Chuck Crawford, would understand that.

It is a shame that ambassadors such as Crawford did not take a more principled stand against rendition and torture when working for HMG, rather than honing their skills in duplicity and hypocrisy. No wonder he dislikes Wikkileaks – it exposes the likes of Crawford and his colleagues for the double dealers they are

When Charles Crawford was quivering inside a British Embassy, he knew for sure that no attempt would be made to drag his lardy backside out into the street and make him subject to local justice. Yet here we find the same Foreign Office Fool talking up the idea of going in and getting Assange? Glad to see the Brightest & Best are still coming from the jolly ol’ Playing Fields Of Eton, eh??

The Foreign Office used to be full of bastards – but they were clever bastards, now it is full of stupid bastards

Mr Crawford, When having the picture taken which you have posted at the top of your article you wore a friendly mask. Despite the plastic body language you are clearly ‘one of them’. If you had been a commenter on this article rather than its writer, you would have been called a troll.

And my favourite:

I suspect Mr. Crawford wasn’t even a ‘twinkle’ in his mothers eye during the cold war period against Russia so I’ll forgive him if he wasn’t aware of the honey traps that the CIA, MI5 & KGB set for each others citizens.