Remember the Really Perfect Crime? Thus: The Really Perfect Crime is not defined by the fact that no-one knows who did it. Instead it is to commit a truly atrocious deed and then arrange things so that we all know exactly who did it – but prefer to look away from the victim, to […]
The EU has not sat idly by as British democracy reels under the weight of its own loathsome misbehaviour. On 7 May the EU launched its new Eastern Partnership – an attempt to set up a new sort of structured relationship with the obviously (more or less) ‘European’ parts of the […]
Back in October in reviewing Craig Murray’s book I discussed the problem of the insecure communications he had: Basically (as I understand it), he did not have a Confidential email system. He did have an Unclassified FCO email system (which in Tashkent’s circumstances could not have been regarded as secure) […]
So on towards the policy core of Craig Murray’s Murder in Samarkand – his policy disagreement with the FCO over torture and the War on Terror. In Chapter 9 Craig describes an EU human rights Ambassadorial demarche. I have analysed the genre here. His description bears out my earlier point, […]
Craig Murray has graciously has accepted my proposal of a public debate – venue and format to be agreed. He also rightly has pointed out that I never finished reviewing his book Murder in Samarkand including the key passages about his head-on collision with the FCO over torture and the War on […]
Over at anticant’s arena I find an awesome sentence with both my name and that of Camille Paglia in it which just transcends all understanding, or at least mine: “It is this animal craving for something simple and, I daresay, edenic that undergirds our hyperaestheticised pornography in /all/ of its post-modern dimensions. One need […]
Back from Sweden. There the blogosphere is a mighty force in Swedish society. In a country of a bit more than 9 million people there look to be nearly 250,000 blogs. It looks as if the government there are struggling to work out how to deal with this formidable citizen […]
A former top MI6 officer has some brisk things to say about the way foreign policy is made in the UK these days – and the consequences: Mr Inkster said the world was moving from "being policed by America to be policed by nobody" and the danger of an increasingly […]
My posting below on Torture has prompted various comments, some of which have come from people arriving here via my former FCO colleague Craig Murray’s site and who support strongly his insistence that Torture Does Not Work. See for example Moo: I hope you’re not seriously suggesting two things: that torture works and […]
Lots on this subject. Some US conservative thoughts. Newt Gingrich says President Obama is a huge success, in his own terms at least: In just 100 days, President Obama has been devastatingly effective in moving forward swiftly the most radical, government-expanding agenda in American history. At home, in everything from his economic […]
