This (via Daniel Hannan) is absolutely grotesque. What are we being reduced to? And why are we paying taxes to subsidise the madness of thought leading to such a pernicious, creepy document being even considered, let alone written?
This (via Daniel Hannan) is absolutely grotesque. What are we being reduced to? And why are we paying taxes to subsidise the madness of thought leading to such a pernicious, creepy document being even considered, let alone written?
This article by Bruno Waterfield and the leaked EU report about the way the No campaign successfully mobilised public opinion via the Internet to bring Ireland reject the Lisbon Treaty are fascinating on many levels. Note especially the Euro-lamenting that traditional media outlets are facing many new forms of competition and therefore […]
I have opined about the Rules purporting to lay down what diplomats can and can’t say once they leave the FCO. See eg here. Now my former colleage Sir Edward Clay has reiterated his concerns about the FCO Rules: The rule requires former diplomats to consult about any proposed public […]
Remember Bill Ayers? He’s back. And not everyone is happy about it, trying to bully the issue off the US airways. Those horrid right-wing Republican smears! Trying to link Obama to a respectable, nay mainstream figure in the progressive camp. Whatever next? Some good advice to the Obama team.
As Georgia burns we look to the FT to guide us through all the complexities. And sure enough: Paris Hilton is no average airhead, as her self-parody shows They’re right. She is way above average airheadnesses. She is top of the airhead range.
More on the feisty Report by the HoC Public Affairs Select Committee report which came down heavily on FCO rules purporting to limit what diplomats might say after they leave the Service. Craig Murray calls these regulations ‘near-fascistic’: The idea, of course, is that only the ministers’ version of truth will […]
Here is Future One. Martin Jacques gloating over ‘western impotence’ as evidenced by our inability to get what we wanted in Burma or Zimbabwe. In the parallel moral universe of MJ, South Africa’s President Mbeki has "scored a major diplomatic triumph" by getting the two main parties in Zimbabwe to the negotiating […]
… just when Barack wants to make America cool again, people are being really mean to him. How cowardly is that?! Via American Digest.
The role (if any) played by former diplomats in public life depends to quite a degree on how – and how far – they draw on their extensive and unique experiences in the Diplomatic Service. So, questions. What are the limits if any on what they can say publicly about […]
This report as picked up by Iain Dale and others asserts that: Internet users will be protected from abusive bloggers and malicious Facebook postings under proposals to set up an independent internet watchdog, The Daily Telegraph has learnt. The body, made up of industry representatives, would be responsible for drawing […]
