Update: The EU (improbably) as … Dirty Harry. Click through to the wonderful link. * * * * * If I were a diplomat from Mars reporting back to HQ on the wheeler-dealings of the pitiful earthlings in this part of the planet, I’d be starting to suggest that the […]
Election Day across the UK looms. The Labour Party are set to lose power. Hurrah. But will they lose badly enough to be obliterated? Or somehow only enough to stay in business and start scheming anew after some ritual blood-letting? Here’s my own New Labour Story. I joined the FCO […]
Ian Bancroft’s articles on the Balkans are always interesting and perceptive, not that I always agree with them. See eg this one about Bosnia, as previously linked. Yet something has been gnawing away in my mind about the picture of Ian which the Guardian uses. Yes. Got it! Are he and Kraftwerk […]
Once I send a witty telegram to the FCO from Sarajevo entitled: Bosnia: The Plot Thickens – And The Thicks Plot The deep problem in Bosnia is that the place is rotten with feckless Yugoslav communist self-management philosophy. The idea that you can talk and talk about ‘politics’ and borrow […]
A reader prompted by my piece on Srebrenica points me to this long analysis by Milivoje Ivaniševi
Bored by the UK election campaign already? Missing meaning in your life? Or just nothing much to do tomorrow? Pop over to Toronto for a gathering on the subject of Srebrenica: Myth, Manipulation, Historic Truth at St Sava church hall, 203 River Street. 3pm. There you can expect to hear […]
Loath as we all are to disagree with Guido, on the issue of how fast votes are counted after elections he is Wrong and Iain Dale is Right. In the FCO I have followed politics in communist Yugoslavia (no voting), apartheid South Africa (no voting for most people), Yeltsin’s Russia […]
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 […]
