Sorry to have been a bit quiet, folks. I have been in Vienna with ADRg Ambassadors giving negotiation training to Senior Inspectors at the International Atomic Energy Agency. These Inspectors have a unique and important job, namely to help check what is going on out there in the world’s civilian […]
Leicester City Council is purporting to admit that it has made no emergency plans for a Zombie invasion: Ms Wyeth said she was unaware of any specific reference to a zombie attack in the council’s emergency plan, however some elements of it could be applied if the situation arose… Ed […]
Here’s my latest article in DIPLOMAT magazine, mulling over the subject of diplomatic loyalty: … the Libya case has given rise to a spectacular number of high profile diplomatic changes of side, with one Libyan ambassador after another announcing support for the opposition forces struggling to bring down the Gaddafi […]
Well, we all have to save the ENVIRONMENT, don’t we? Huh? Huh? Which means going GREEN, right? Let’s hear it for the Continental Hotel in Serbia, deservedly famous for having hosted the murder of Arkan in early 2000. The wifi does not work (much) and the water goes off in […]
Just as we glumly slump in the face of another outburst from the Archbishop of Canterbury, the mighty Iowahawk strikes yet again. It takes rare erudition and even rarer imagination to link one of the world’s most famous poems (nearly 200 years old) to the fiercely straining underpants of a bratty American […]
Always good to be reminded that Europe is not just the wimpy EU or neurotic Balkans. There’s also Ukraine, and where (if anywhere) it fits in to the Bigger Picture. Luckily we have Odessablog’s Blog on the case, watching things with an astute British eye from balmy Crimea. Here’s a […]
When B Obama was running against J McCain, all the usual liberal pundits warned just how awful things would be if people voted for McCain. Yes, millions of people did vote for McCain. And yes, things have turned out awfully. Here’s a long handy list, starting with one obviously obnoxious Republican appointment […]
A snappy young Serbian woman with two degrees from universities in the USA comes back to Belgrade to live and work. She gets a good job in a major Serbian bank on the corporate communications side. She gives a presentation to the bank top brass on how the bank can […]
Off to Belgrade tomorrow for a conference on Thursday hosted by the Belgrade Forum for the World of Equals as supported by Russian partners. The theme is European Security in the Light of 2012 Elections. Notable speakers include Dragan Todorovic of the Serbian Radical Party, whose programme asserts Serbia‘s rights over […]
A neat little analysis of hypocrisy in politics and what, if anything, it rests on: Consider these two statements from two different potential husbands: “I know I promised to stop drinking forever, honey, but I fell off the wagon again; please forgive me, and I’ll really really try to stay […]
