Craig Murray is busy drumming up interest in his new book about dirty dealings in Africa.

He has chosen some supposedly good quotes from this text to help this effort. What do his readers think about them?

Many of them are so blindingly silly and/or vulgar that they will do his cause little good, I suspect.

I pick out only two which are of some professional interest to me:

Thousands of senior British diplomats, civil servants and members of the military knew of our policy of acceptance of torture.

Thousands? Who are these people? How senior? If we are talking (generously) about First Secretary/Colonel level and above as ‘senior’, how many does UK public life have in the foreign policy area broadly defined? What exactly did they ‘know’?

Diplomats rather pride themselves on not caring.

Fatheads rather pride themselves on being witty.