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 […]
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 […]
The adoption late yesterday by the Serbia National Assembly (Narodna Skupstina) of a Declaration on the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in eastern Bosnia has been hitting the headlines. See eg the BBC. And RFE/RL. The EU has welcomed the move. Others in the region including various Serb liberals have strongly criticised it for not […]
My posting on the film Storm and its setting – the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) – quoted two lines from the movie: Two powerful lines from the film stand out: "What are these trials for?" "This (ie ICTY) is not therapy…" Some thoughts. What is ICTY’s mandate and jurisdiction? […]
… things are hotting up. This website supported by some Facebook activity is attacking Daphne Caruana Galizia in a, hem, rather personal way, . And she is hitting back: Your parents’ generation – perhaps even your parents themselves – created a culture of fear and intimidation in this country which […]
Is described by me here at RFE/RL: … two central questions have never been decisively answered. Did political reconciliation in post-World War II Yugoslavia depend on an implicit understanding that the horrible interethnic violence of World War II could be put to one side as long as minority communities in the […]
Last week I went to a preview of a new film called Storm. Here is a New York Times review which conveys the gist of it. The story centres on a Bosnia war crimes trial at the ICTY. A Bosnian Serb military officier is on trial, but the case against […]
I think I have solved the problem of how best to elect a BH Presidency in a fair non-ethnic way. Walking the dawg through the mud of Oxfordshire has its uses. Two Options (Note – based on what might be acceptable to the main parties). Option One: Ethnicity Lite The […]
Welcome Iain Dale readers. * * * * * Am I missing something here, or is this beyond stupidity? Two German members of the supposedly liberal ALDE group in the European Parliament: We cannot leave it to private rating agencies to decide whether Europe is creditworthy. By lowering Greece’s creditworthiness […]
The whole business is all about the French Presidential election cycle and the double-dealings of the key protagonists? Bien sûr!
