Update Welcome Guido readers. And see below a comment from Denis M himself. To which I have replied here. * * * * * Here is former FCO Minister Denis MacShane in full electoral rant against the Conservatives’ links with exotic foreigners: … the judgment call of David Cameron in […]
For no obvious reason the BBC website uses inverted commas here and there to give a hint of ‘qualifying’ or subjectifying or something words or phrases. Look at this latest example: Eugene Terreblanche ‘killers’ in South Africa court I suppose there might be a case for putting the word killers […]
Update Greetings Iain Dale readers. And see Denis’s reply in the comments below, where he promotes Old Etonian literary prowess – and (wisely) changes the subject. I’ll respond to that later today. Now here. * * * * * Denis MacShane is genial and complimentary (as ever) but unrepentant in […]
Here is the strange piece by an austere-looking Marie Benoit mentioning me in Malta Independent Online. And here is the message I sent yesterday to Ms Benoit and others at MIO, plus to the website of Daphne Caruana Galizia who also writes for the Malta Independent media family. As far […]
Over at Spiegel Online is an energetic and extended article knocking hard at some key arguments proposed by those who insist that human activity is causing grave long-term damage to the Earth’s climate. Here is the essence of what I think about this policy area. Over at Watt’s Up With […]
My site’s ratings for March soared to new heights with lots of interest from Malta. It is not easy to follow the fusillades of insults between rival tendencies there. According to Daphne Caruana Galizia, her political opponents (primarily Malta Labour supporters) have set up a website to attack her as […]
As any fule kno, Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski is married to Anne Applebaum, seriously distinguished writer/commentator/historian. So when Radek failed to get selected as Citizens Platform candidate to run for Polish President later this year, what else could Anne do but write a short piece about what it’s like […]
Remember the world scoop/poop of Sarajevo newspaper Dnevi Avaz, featuring what was said to be fascimile copy of a letter from Prime Minister John Major to FCO Minister of State Douglas Hogg, back in May 1993? In the so-called letter Prime Minister Major says a number of nasty things about […]
The adoption late yesterday by the Serbia National Assembly (Narodna Skupstina) of a Declaration on the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in eastern Bosnia has been hitting the headlines. See eg the BBC. And RFE/RL. The EU has welcomed the move. Others in the region including various Serb liberals have strongly criticised it for not […]
My latest piece in DIPLOMAT magazine looks at different territories round the world which do not fit into neat and tidy state categories. Or do not want to do so. Turns out there are quite a few of them. Nice drawing!
