Driving down the M40 to visit my elderly mother today for Mother’s Day, there was a sudden whooshing sound and dazzling lights as my car was swept into hyperspace (a bit like that extended cosmic Star Gate sequence in 2001: A Space Odyssey.) Or maybe it was a traffic jam, and I […]
Always a pleasure to post a comment on Craig Murray’s site. His readers are so smart and droll in reply, giving excellent material for my rotating What The Critics Say box: Having visited your blog i must say it doesnt surprise me. Your self-aggrandising careerist pomposity is quite breathtaking […]
Former Bosnia Presidency member Ejup Ganic has been released on bail, albeit subject to some strict conditions. Serbia has to continue mustering evidence for the process to move forward. In the end current BH Bosniac Presidency member Haris Silajdzic did not visit him in jail, but instead remonstrated with David […]
Over at Business and Politics. Thus: Remember the Bible parable of the Prodigal Son? He squandered his fortune but saw the error of his ways and crept back home. He was warmly welcomed by his father, who explained the significance of his repentance to an older brother unimpressed by the […]
Under the Lisbon Treaty the European Union has a new External Action Service, led by Baroness Ashton. And as expected, it is struggling to trundle out of the hangar and get on the runway. The main issue in the arguments over setting up the EAS is not all about how […]
Sarajevo’s Dnevni Avaz reports that the Bosniac member of the three-person Bosnian collective state Presidency, Haris Silajdzic, is travelling to London to visit Ejup Ganic tomorrow – presumably in jail. The office of the Serb member of the Presidency Nebojsa Radmanovic mournfully complains that he still has not been informed. […]
At the risk of boring everyone, here is an excellent interview with Jovan Divjak about the Dobrovoljacka St killings and the politics of it all now. It’s in Bosnian/Serbian (not as Google says Croatian), but if you use the Google Translate button you’ll get more than enough of it in […]
Here is what looks like the original British Arrest Warrant for Ejup Ganic (click on the Arrest Warrant.jpg link) It contains a seeming serious error (emphasis added), saying that Ganic is accused in a category 2 territory, namely Serbia of the commission of an offence the conduct of which occurred in that […]
What really happened in chaotic Sarajevo in and around Dobrovoljacka Street on 3 May 1992? The range of views appears to be broadly as follows: Core Serbia/’Serb’ Claim: perfidious massacre of JNA soldiers attempting to withdraw from Sarajevo under UN colours as per an agreement duly reached with the Bosniac leadership, […]
Dnevni Avaz in Sarajevo reports that the UK court has ordered that Ejup Ganic stay in prison for a further week, apparently to give Serbia more time to present evidence against him for the Dobrovoljacka St massacre in 1992. A protest demonstration is to be held outside the British and […]
