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” […]
Iain Dale interviews Adam Boulton and does a good job: What about Alastair Campbell’s briefings? You only need to read his diaries to see how many times he would mislead the lobby. While I admire much of Alastair Campbell’s professionalism, the problem was that he introduced a culture where it […]
Update: More here. * * * * * Looking this morning on the FCO’s website for the official statement of grovelling apology over the infamous Pope Visit memo, I spotted this horror: 12 Feb: The Chandler’s – FCO’s position misrepresented Under Latest News, nothing. So, over to the mainsteam media. […]
UPDATE Welcome Guido readers. This (below) was written before the Smolensk disaster. My considered thoughts on Lech Kaczynski and what his death means for Poland will follow. * * * * * Always a pleasure to penetrate deep into Guardian territory and plant a different flag. As here today, where […]
The Labour Party in Malta is again coming under withering fire – from Daphne: … somebody with a Big Brain came up with the idea of taking the now infamous image of a Labour ballerina (mittilkless aspiration) originally designed for a billboard and using it for those giant cubes they […]
Update: the page over at Guido’s has been changed to ‘duped’. Sigh * * * * * Here is Guido on the tragic case of Baroness Scotland (emphasis added): Anyone who finds themselves in a little difficulty regarding hiring illegal immigrants can have some free legal advice from the Attorney […]
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 […]
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 […]
Over at Craig Murray’s place I posted a modest little comment on his piece about Eugene Terreblanche: Craig, As you know, I was posted at the British Embassy in South Africa as apartheid ended. I attended a rally of Terreblanche’s AWB movement once. The worrying thing about Terreblanche’s murder is […]
