More from me (if you can face it) over at Business and Politics. On Iran – who is weak and strong in the Negotiations between Iran/USA/Russia/China: It all boils down to a simple proposition: you don’t win more in any negotiation than your objective strength deserves. In a struggle between […]
I have had an enquiry from someone who follows closely UK immigration issues asking about the policy issues surrounding the opening of the UK labour market to Poles in 2004 when Poland joined the EU: Did the UK government encourage mass Polish immigration into the UK? No. Well, not really. […]
One of the very hardest things for a newly elected leader is to move into a new frame of mind – and give organisational expression to it. Above all, how best to deploy the people who have slaved away to achieve victory and now expect a role in Power? The […]
As you try to grasp what is happening in Ukraine, you may well be asking yourself: what does Ukraine mean anyway? And, needless to say, views differ. There is a root word kraj in Slav languages which has all sorts of nuanced meanings in different Slavonic languages, linked to the […]
Ralph Peters praises the ruthlessness of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner who has authorised the expansion of ‘drone’ attacks on key terrorist suspects overseas: The Pakistani Taliban is losing CEOs faster than Detroit … This is another Amazon Space issue. The best (if not only) way to deal with individual […]
Perusing the website of the British High Commission in Malta (as of course one does) I found this link to a letter written by PM Gordon Brown to Dr Alan Williams MP of the Liaison Committee on the way forward after the Copenhagen Climate Change summit. It also is on the […]
As regular readers will recall, I have written at some length about the bewildering complexity – and stunning simplicity – of the EU Budget process. When all the feuding and whining subsides, it comes down to the banal fact that a few countries Give, and most countries Get. Those who Get […]
All eyes on Tony Blair, now giving evidence. A further couple of observations on the deep legal angles, drawing on my own conversations with someone very close to all this. First, the legal arguments finally used by the Attorney General to justify the intervention (drawing on the implicit and explicit […]
Anguished as he is by his belated discovery that FCO Legal Adviser Michael Wood had not ‘stabbed him in the back’ as per the foolish description in his book, Craig Murray slumps back into despair: I felt that Michael had stabbed me in the back by refusing to back me […]
A friendly reader asks: Thank you for producing such a thought-provoking and readable blog. I thought you may be interested in this link to a press release from the Swedish MFA. They plan to close 6 Posts and open 10. https://www.sweden.gov.se/sb/d/12653/a/138250 Several of these post closures are in the EU. […]
