My recent observations on the arrest of the network of Russian sleeper/illegal spies in the USA have been noticed and commended by Boris Volodarsky: Finally, out of a wall of stupid and totally unqualified media reports, including two articles in The Sunday Times (July 4, 2010) not to mention the […]
Remember the attempt by Serbia to get former Bosnian leader Ejup Ganic extradited from London to Belgrade on war crimes charges dating back to the early days of the conflict in Bosnia? After a flurry of media interest when Ganic was first arrested, it all went quiet after BH Presidency member […]
It is wearying being peppered with facile media so-called analysis of the Russian spy story featuring this sort of line: Huh? What’s all the fuss about? What’s there to spy on in the places these amateur people were living in? Did the Kremlin really want to infiltrate the PTA? Typical […]
The so-called Queen of the White House press corps Helen Thomas has disgraced herself by calling for ethnic cleansing of Jews from Israel. Is it my imagination, or are Helen Thomas and the Evil Witch in Snow White by some chance related? I report. You decide.
Maybe it all gets just too complicated. Too many things go wrong at the same time. The capacity of the world’s leaders and institutions to respond in a coherent and authoritative way on several huge problems at the same time ebbs away. This opens the way for calculated lunges by different regional […]
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, […]
My posting on the film Storm and its setting – the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) – quoted two lines from the movie: Two powerful lines from the film stand out: "What are these trials for?" "This (ie ICTY) is not therapy…" Some thoughts. What is ICTY’s mandate and jurisdiction? […]
The energetic campaign to reform the British libel laws is making progress. Yesterday the three largest UK political parties all indicated wilingness to make significant changes. And see Jack Straw in the Guardian: … perhaps most importantly for the media – we’ll be looking at whether to introduce a statutory […]
The Obama administration’s ruthlessness in driving through its healthcare so-called reforms has to be admired in its sheer boldness. Now what? Mark Steyn: You can say, oh, well, the polls show most people opposed to it, but, if that mattered, the Dems wouldn’t be doing what they’re doing. Their bet […]
If you type Maltastar into Google Search in the UK as of 10.26 on 15 March, this is what you get at the top of the first and vital page: Results 1 – 10 of about 177,000 for maltastar. (0.11 seconds) Search Results maltastar.com 15 Mar 2010 … Crawford refuses […]
