Man on Crawford Extortion Charge Not me. Phew. It reminds me of an interview I gave to a Bosnian news magazine. The final question was, "Are you related to Cindy Crawford?" To which I wittily replied: We have nothing in common except our name and our beauty.
When it comes down to it, what is a Blog? Not much more than personal musings, often with links to other websites which in one way or the other serve to reinforce the point one is trying to make. Some sites aim higher – to become places where intelligent people […]
Back from Berlin. Maybe I was in the wrong place on the night, but there seemed to be a remarkable number of road-blocks near the Brandenburg Gates to keep the public well back from the assembled global VIPs. By which I mean hundreds of yards away. A curious and depressingly […]
Welcome Iain Dale readers Update: A good piece in the Guardian by Simon Jenkins on the wider politics of all this. Max Atkinson suggests (see Comments below) that the Sun‘s use of this story is ‘fishy’. So what if it is? Labour have enjoyed the Sun’s vivid support for many […]
Are there levels of Evil? If over the course of a couple of thousand years Hitler and his mass extermination policies represents the deepest level reached so far (only a tad deeper than Stalin/Mao, but, yes, deeper), is there anything still deeper waiting to emerge? This is a great piece […]
Not because the public money was slipped into the pocket of someone working in government. But because it shows a total lack of self-restraint about spending money put in to the public purse by taxpayers. Not to mention being pitifully self-indulgent. And totally unnecessary. Shameful. Outlandish. Make him pay it […]
David Aaronovitch (who like David Miliband comes from a family steeped in High Marxism) has a vigorous go at David Cameron this morning over the Jedwabne/Kaminski issue. There are already three David’s in this story. But what to do? Co zrobi
Former senior diplomat Sir Christopher Meyer is busy describing what he sees as a decline in the influence and technique of British diplomacy: New Labour’s obsessive reliance on the alchemy of consultants has infected much of Whitehall. The culture of targets, set by the Treasury, has acquired the madness and […]
A few days ago I recommended The Historian, a long and elegantly intelligent modern reworking of the Dracula story with lots of well-tuned Balkan detail: Here for those who want More is a gripping look by Andrew Stuttaford at one of my favourite films, Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu the Vampyre: Stuttaford describes how Herzog develops […]
I have just found this glowing compliment over at politics.co.uk. Glowing, but with a sting: There’s a lot to be said for this blog from former diplomat Charles Crawford. For those with an interest in international affairs and diplomacy this site is an absolute must. The look of the site could certainly […]
