Snooping around the Internet I found this tired old list of supposed MI6 spy Ambassadors. With my own name on it! Oooo – the frisson of excitement.
Snooping around the Internet I found this tired old list of supposed MI6 spy Ambassadors. With my own name on it! Oooo – the frisson of excitement.
Former Ambassador turned ‘activist’ Craig Murray is a commendable phenomenon for self-publicity. His website now attracts a considerable following, far higher than this modest effort. But he achieves this in part by rehashing old FCO material, and noisily claiming to gullible readers that it shows all sorts of things (eg ‘complicity […]
A nicely turned piece in the Guardian by Kamil Tchorek on how a more mellow Jaroslaw Kaczynski missed becoming Poland’s new President by only some 200,000 votes. Update: the final gap in Komorowski’s favour was a full million votes out of some 17 million cast. Look at the map via […]
As you all know from the great Frank Luntz, it’s not what you say … … it’s what they hear! And much of what they ‘hear’ comes from what they ‘see’ and ‘feel’. Thus the best speaker in the world will be undone if the audience see and remember him/her as the one who […]
The Total Politics blog vote comes round again. Last year I slipped down the ratings. So maybe I’ll do better this time round. The voting regime is different (and better) this time. Entries are by email and have to include AT LEAST FIVE British blogs, listed in order of preference of […]
Two weeks ago I made my prediction about the Polish Presidential elections: My bet this evening? Komorowski to edge home in two weeks’ time, something like 53% – 47% Earlier today it looked as if Kaczynski might have squeaked home, but that bet looks more or less to be the final […]
Remember Richard Murphy? The man who wants more tax, closely followed by lots more tax? Watching him and Tim Worstall slug it out is one of the UK’s best blog battles. Anyway, Richard is taking up the government’s willingness to let the public suggest stupid laws for abolition. He suggests getting […]
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 second and final round of Poland’s Presidential elections takes place today. Bronislaw Komorowski (Citizens Platform) is hoping not to get pipp’d at the post by Jaroslaw Kaczynski (Law and Justice), twin brother of President Lech Kaczynski who died in the Smolensk disaster. Which of them is the more ‘right-wing’? […]
I am pleased to let you know that I have joined Castle European Estates as an Advisory Board member, with a view to helping them bring significant new international investment to the Western Balkan region (ie former Yugoslavia) and beyond. I am in good company.
