My name sporadically pops up on a trashy Maltese site Taste Your Own Medicine set up specifically to lambast Daphne Caruana Galizia. My attempt to post a comment of clarification on this site has (as far as I can tell) failed: Dear TYOM, I see that I am mentioned […]
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 […]
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 […]
Update: the page over at Guido’s has been changed to ‘duped’. Sigh * * * * * Here is Guido on the tragic case of Baroness Scotland (emphasis added): Anyone who finds themselves in a little difficulty regarding hiring illegal immigrants can have some free legal advice from the Attorney […]
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 […]
I twice have written on this site about one of the most remarkable nights of my FCO career. This posting – my first ever published on this site – described how I single-handedly as FCO Resident Clerk crushed press freedom in Scotland late one night. And then this more recent […]
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 […]
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 […]
Via The Browser a rather lame article by Jay Rosen arguing that journalists in the USA have become so non-judgmental that they are striving for an impossible professional ‘innocence’ and are just missing the point. By way of evidence he cites a long analysis of the Tea Party tendency in the USA […]
Yesterday in London I was on the stage at the Polish Cultural Centre in West London for a discussion about Solidarity – Thirty Years After. Others on the panel were Wladyslaw Frasyniuk (former top Solidarity activist and former political prisoner turned politician) – someone whose lively intelligence has left him […]
