Or if the BBC website front page as of 0947 this morning is anything to go by, is he bowing to us? Plus how many other bowlers have managed to take 800 wickets on any given day in their fine Test careers, let alone their final day? Sigh: Muralitharan reaches […]
Catherine Ashton wants a more unified approcach to tackle piracy Well done BBC proof-readers. As of 0903 today.
Here is my long interview (in English) with George Matlock over at Radio Orla, a successful London-based radio station with a strong Polish angle. I normally can’t bear to watch or listen to myself after doing such media slots. But I started to listen to this one – I found it […]
With Nick Drew and others, I’ll be joining Iain Dale on LBC tomorrow night from midnight through to 0600 on Friday to offer thoughts on the UK elections. My niche will be foreign thoughts/angles. If any readers out there – especially people overseas – want to send in any observations […]
The FCO has been quick off the mark to get on its website a piece about the ‘small explosion’ near the car of HM Ambassador in Yemen this morning. And, stop the presses, there is to be a new UK Ambassador in Macedonia. Yet nothing appears there under News on […]
I have just spotted this tragic story from 2005, describing how my own leaked email about the EU Budget Negotiations led to someone resigning from his media job in London! With Polish emotion rather than western diplomacy, Kris wanted to recall Crawford to Britain “a country he does not know” […]
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 […]
Rummaging around the Bosnian parts of the Internet reveals that there is a deliberate campaign going on to pump out the forged John Major letter. Postings carrying the text of the article – now removed by the Dnevni Avaz website – The searched-for article does not exist! – are appearing in identical terms […]
For no obvious reason the BBC website uses inverted commas here and there to give a hint of ‘qualifying’ or subjectifying or something words or phrases. Look at this latest example: Eugene Terreblanche ‘killers’ in South Africa court I suppose there might be a case for putting the word killers […]
Over at Spiegel Online is an energetic and extended article knocking hard at some key arguments proposed by those who insist that human activity is causing grave long-term damage to the Earth’s climate. Here is the essence of what I think about this policy area. Over at Watt’s Up With […]
