And here I am debuting at Conservative Home, on the always fascinating subject of the many ways in which Labour damaged the FCO. A further piece tomorrow looks at what William Hague needs to do to start to put things right.
And here I am debuting at Conservative Home, on the always fascinating subject of the many ways in which Labour damaged the FCO. A further piece tomorrow looks at what William Hague needs to do to start to put things right.
Remember the playful mermaids and mermen from HM Embassy in Warsaw? The Independent reports that some of them have got into trouble at the posh Beaver Club over at the Canadian Embassy: Quite what took place in the embassy – a three-storey modernist construction in French limestone and aluminium which won […]
John Redwood MP puts it tersely: Its first task, as stern budget superviser urging member states to rein in deficits, should be to make dramatic reductions in the EU budget. From each member states point of view the money spent on EU matters and projects is of more marginal importance […]
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 […]
Today I made my debut on the Agenda programme recorded for Press TV, an international media outlet paid for by Iran Broadcasting. The subject was British Foreign Policy after the UK elections. The programme should go out this weekend, or maybe the weekend after. Islamic journalist Yvonne Ridley was the host. [Update: […]
The BBC asks a good question. Why has Eton produced so many MPs and PMs? With its Victorian-era uniform, and rules dating back through the centuries, Eton is often perceived as a rigid, conformist institution. But according to Nick Fraser, author of the book The Importance of Being Eton, the […]
Update: The EU (improbably) as … Dirty Harry. Click through to the wonderful link. * * * * * If I were a diplomat from Mars reporting back to HQ on the wheeler-dealings of the pitiful earthlings in this part of the planet, I’d be starting to suggest that the […]
If anyone needs something different from life, and/or wants to hear me talk at some length about my time in Poland and other issues, here are details of my long interview last week with London’s excellent English/Polish radio station Radio Orla.fm. Broadcast tomorrow (Sunday) and again on Monday, and available thereafter […]
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 […]
With Nick Drew and others, I’ll be joining Iain Dale on LBC tomorrow night from midnight through to 0600 on Friday to offer thoughts on the UK elections. My niche will be foreign thoughts/angles. If any readers out there – especially people overseas – want to send in any observations […]
