It is always heartening to see Croat DNA on the cricket field. Especially when everything else is going so badly.
It is always heartening to see Croat DNA on the cricket field. Especially when everything else is going so badly.
My young issue of the non-distaff side had a turbulent upbringing. Between 1996 and 2003 they lived in Russia, Croatia, Bosnia, USA, England, Serbia and Poland. Seven countries in some seven years. This took its toll in educational terms. In Sarajevo they were among the first intake in the newly […]
I am struck by the solid number of people coming to this site via my Diplomatic Oral History transcript here. Welcome. There is a lot of good vivid stuff there if anyone really does want a Lot More about some of the most memorable moments in my diplomatic career: In Bosnia after […]
Oh Lordy. Craig Murray has called me the leading FCO sock-puppet on the Internet. Read his characteristically muddled piece for yourselves. Here is the reply which I have posted on his site (Note: links added for ease of reference): Craig, Dear. Oh. Dear. Are you really insinuating that somehow I […]
Can you have too much of a good thing? In some instances, yes. But not when it comes to my Oral Career History as recorded for the British Diplomatic Oral History Programme (part of the Churchill Archives Centre at Churchill College, Cambridge). Here is my entry. It looks to be […]
Max Atkinson has picked up my comment as posted on his site about what makes a speech memorable and had a look at the famous speech by Sir Geoffrey Howe seen as a pivotal moment in the events which led to Mrs Thatcher’s resignation as Prime Minister. He asked if […]
If the EU is intended to be a sort of new über-country, getting rid of all that horrid provincial national feeling in favour of a new Euro-togetherness, it makes sense for the European Commission to take little interest in the fate of national soccer teams even if others do. Hence […]
More high-pitched noise on the status or not in the Catholic Church of Bishop Richard Williamson, with Chancellor Merkel ploughing in: "This is not just a matter, in my opinion, for the Christian, Catholic and Jewish communities in Germany but the Pope and the Vatican should clarify unambiguously that there […]
When you are trying to sort out failing companies, is it smart to strive to make sure the best people won’t want to work there? Surely if ever there was a time for performance-linked reward schemes, this is it? An executive who leads a company out of a deep hole and […]
Is the best hope for mass communication in a globalised world a boiled-down version of the English language called Globish? A Frenchman Jean-Paul Nerriere has been trying to codify this phenomenon into some 1500 words and simplified expressions. The crafty French sub-plot seems to be to concede a historic linguistic defeat […]
