Craig is at it again: New Labour’s Complicity in Torture – Truly Evil I have now obtained under the Freedom of Information Act a heavily censored copy of one of my telegrams from Tashkent protesting at the use by the UK government of intelligence obtained under torture. Every British person […]
If (as is surely the case) you want an easy link to my recent pieces for DIPLOMAT magazine, here it is.
The Week has no online edition, which makes it annoyingly difficult to read it for free. Still, its latest Wit & Wisdom column makes magnificent reading, quoting this famous passage as it appeared in The Times: … [the egregious] Common Agricultural Policy (the “most stupid immoral state-subsidised policy in human history, […]
Just to say that I’ll be joining Nick Ferrari and Iain Dale and a Band of Bloggers/pundits live on air from midnight to 6am on LBC as the UK election results gush in. Who needs sleep when the Brownian Socialist Behemoth topples over? Iain links to this appallingly funny punch on […]
It’s always good to mention Malta on this website, as everyone in Malta then comes here to remonstrate in one direction or the other and my ratings shoot up. I happened upon Daphne Caruana Galizia’s site when I visited Malta only because someone there mentioned it. It turns out that […]
Ian Bancroft’s articles on the Balkans are always interesting and perceptive, not that I always agree with them. See eg this one about Bosnia, as previously linked. Yet something has been gnawing away in my mind about the picture of Ian which the Guardian uses. Yes. Got it! Are he and Kraftwerk […]
What with one thing and another April has been a bumper month for readers by my relatively modest standards: nearly 13,000 Unique Visitors recorded and still a few hours to go. Especially pleasing is that some 3000 visits have stayed around here for up to an hour – or more. Today […]
I earlier this month mused about suing Malta under European human rights law for the local media’s dismal inability to acknowledge polite requests from me to set the record straight on wild claims about me in some Malta newspapers and websites. Malta lawyer Etienne Caleja lays it on the line: Well, […]
Tim Collard, (a retired British diplomat who spent most of his career in China and Germany. He is an active member of the Labour Party) offers a jeer in the Telegraph at William Hague’s sensible comment on the FCO Popegate fiasco: William Hague, who expects to be in charge in King […]
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 […]
