Opinion / The Art of Diplomacy

Lech Kaczynski: Poland And Russia

I have written extensively on this site about what the Katyn Massaces represents for Poland, for Russia, for Europe – and for civilisation. Type Katyn into the site’s Search function and get the links. See for example this extract from my final FCO telegram, sent to London from Warsaw as […]

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The Legacy Of Lech and Maria Kaczynski: Si Monumentum Requiris, Circumspice

Here (below) is the text of my appreciation of the life and times of Lech and Maria Kaczynski, now up at Radio Free Europe. Welcome Steyn Online readers. * * * * * I attended a smart Warsaw dinner party in 2006, not long after the Kaczynski twins and their Law […]

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Srebrenica: A Painfully Disappointing Massacre

Bored by the UK election campaign already? Missing meaning in your life? Or just nothing much to do tomorrow? Pop over to Toronto for a gathering on the subject of Srebrenica: Myth, Manipulation, Historic Truth at St Sava church hall, 203 River Street. 3pm. There you can expect to hear […]

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Charles Crawford: Guardian Writer (Again) And Poland

UPDATE   Welcome Guido readers. This (below) was written before the Smolensk disaster. My considered thoughts on Lech Kaczynski and what his death means for Poland will follow. * * * * * Always a pleasure to penetrate deep into Guardian territory and plant a different flag. As here today, where […]

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Another Letter To Denis MacShane: Conservative v Labour Foreign Policy

Denis returns to the charge in a comment on my previous posting: I think Charles gives the game away when he says he will vote Conservative. I campaign against Islamist bigotry and regularly criticise Iran and other oppressive majority Muslim nations in the House of Commons. But the notion that […]

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The World’s Most Pathetic Islamist Forgery – Exposed At Last

Attention, militant and extreme Islamists! Especially in Bosnia. An attempt has been made back in the 1990s to put round a forged letter from British Prime Minister John Major to FCO Minister Douglas Hogg, supposedly ‘revealing’ wicked British anti-Islamic policies. Well, here it is. I want you all to pay […]

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That Dnevni Avaz Forgery – Again

Rummaging around the Bosnian parts of the Internet reveals that there is a deliberate campaign going on to pump out the forged John Major letter. Postings carrying the text of the article – now removed by the Dnevni Avaz website – The searched-for article does not exist! – are appearing in identical terms […]

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Denis MacShane Gets It Wrong Again

Update Welcome Guido readers. And see below a comment from Denis M himself. To which I have replied here. * * * * * Here is former FCO Minister Denis MacShane in full electoral rant against the Conservatives’ links with exotic foreigners: … the judgment call of David Cameron in […]

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Open Letter To Denis MacShane: Foreign Policy And Homosexuality

Update Greetings Iain Dale readers. And see Denis’s reply in the comments below, where he promotes Old Etonian literary prowess – and (wisely) changes the subject. I’ll respond to that later today. Now here. * * * * * Denis MacShane is genial and complimentary (as ever) but unrepentant in […]

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Malta: For The Record (Again)

Here is the strange piece by an austere-looking Marie Benoit mentioning me in Malta Independent Online. And here is the message I sent yesterday to Ms Benoit and others at MIO, plus to the website of Daphne Caruana Galizia who also writes for the Malta Independent media family. As far […]

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