A pseudonymous fellow blogger (PFB) and I have had an exchange re privacy and the Night Jack story: CC: Do you really think that if you get up in public as a blogger does and start banging on, you also have the right to get an injunction based on ‘privacy’ […]
UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband has visited Poland. Various Foreign Secretaries have swung through Poland for commemorative or other events. But straightforward bilateral visits by British Foreign Secretaries have been few and far between in recent years. None in my time from 2003-2007 (although Jack Straw took part in the […]
Remember this long lost posting and the earlier one linked there on rock music and diplomatic parlance? I was given David Gilmour’s Live in Gdansk for my birthday, and listening to it I was taken back a long way to Meddle: Super lyrics from Pink Floyd as they got into their […]
Sir Richard Dalton who served as HM Ambassador in Iran gives his view on the drama unfolding there: Despite how individuals may have voted – and notwithstanding brave acts of individual protest, such as resignations – the government apparatus, the parliament, the clergy, the commercial elite and most civil society […]
Alert readers will notice that I have reorganised the site a little, to make the Search function better and to give greater emphasis to the various excellent services I offer – see the new buttons on the left. This blogging business takes a lot of time, but generates zero revenue. […]
Oh Lordy. The Daily Mail rants against the FCO travel package. Tim Worstall falls for it. Try something like this. Any normal employer posting employees overseas includes an arrangement in the postings package for letting staff return to the UK periodically. Does the Dail Mail post anyone overseas? Do they […]
Or look at it like this. You enjoy going to Hyde Park Corner to listen to people banging on. You notice that one of the regular speakers there is a fellow in a black mask and cloak, who calls himself the Masked Revealer and shouts loudly about expenses abuses in […]
My first ever appearance on live UK TV this evening, on SKY to talk briefly on the ‘anonymous blogger’ issue. Why of all the bloggers in the UK they hit upon me is a mystery. But they did. Not an easy occasion, since the intro had me down as thinking […]
I previously wrote about the ethics or not of one US blogger ‘outing’ an anonymous (to be precise pseudonymous) blogger who had persistently criticised him. Now we have Orwell Prize winner Jack Night revealed to be Detective Constable Richard Horton by the Times. Iain Dale is sickened. FleetStreetBlues is/are pragmatic: […]
Here is John Simpson of the BBC opining on Iran. He used to be a good journalist before he got himself tangled in knots trying not to be judgemental about tyrannies, forgetting his grammar in the excitement: This was not, of course, the result the West was hoping for. But political chaos […]
