Craig Murray rumbles in Tashkent: There is much consternation at the apparent decline of Gulnara Karimova’s multi-billion dollar company, Zeromax – which owns Uzbekistan’s most valuable economic assets … Gulnara is of course the daughter and favoured successor of dictator "President" Islam Karimov. And we all recall what an appalling piece of […]
Some US Senators are asking some terse questions about Venezuela’s active anti-American policies: The State Department currently designates four nations — Syria, Cuba, Sudan, and Iran — as state sponsors of terrorism. These countries provide ideological support and material assistance to terrorist groups. Once you consider the evidence behind Venezuela’s substantial ties […]
Today I made my debut on the Agenda programme recorded for Press TV, an international media outlet paid for by Iran Broadcasting. The subject was British Foreign Policy after the UK elections. The programme should go out this weekend, or maybe the weekend after. Islamic journalist Yvonne Ridley was the host. [Update: […]
A reader in Malta sent me this interesting article from the Times of Malta about allegations that a Maltese diplomat based in Libya gave the British important secrets back in 1971. Thus: Ives de Barro – working at the Maltese Embassy in Libya in 1971 – was giving the British […]
So there I was yesterday having a deft lamb chop in the Beefsteak Club, a men-only refuge from political correctness where the noble ideas of Beef and Liberty are still champion’d. The form here is one long dining table where all Club members sit and talk. And what conversation. At […]
I did not get it quite right in ascribing responsibility for the FCO/Pope fiasco to young officer Steven Mulvain. It looks instead as if a more senior colleague, one Anjoum Noorani, is the Guilty Man. Here is the Telegraph account: Mr Noorani, who, like Mr Mulvain, is a graduate of […]
The leak of the supposedly droll FCO email suggesting ‘far-fetched’ ideas for the programme of the Pope’s State Visit to the UK has prompted a flurry of comment. Yesterday I had an exchange with an FCO colleague to ask who was responsible for the email and was told that the […]
Here from the Polish Interior Ministry’s website is the official list of victims of the Smolensk disaster, excluding the crew. Look at this unbearably poignant series of photographs from Poland’s main tabloid Fakt, which like the rest of the Polish media is doing a magnificent job. I have highlighted those nineteen […]
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 […]
Attention, militant and extreme Islamists! Especially in Bosnia. An attempt has been made back in the 1990s to put round a forged letter from British Prime Minister John Major to FCO Minister Douglas Hogg, supposedly ‘revealing’ wicked British anti-Islamic policies. Well, here it is. I want you all to pay […]
