Here’s a remarkable website, apparently devoted to looking at the international development circus from a point of view of some, hem, scepticism: Hand Relief International a charitable organization committed to working anywhere where generalized poverty and misery will ensure significant levels of comfort for our staff They are off to […]
Try this for a neat summary over at Money.co.uk of what the different parties claim to be planning to do with your money if they succeed tomorrow. Scary, mitigated somewhat by a strong majority of voters said to be favouring cuts in public spending rather than tax rises.
Craig is at it again: New Labour’s Complicity in Torture – Truly Evil I have now obtained under the Freedom of Information Act a heavily censored copy of one of my telegrams from Tashkent protesting at the use by the UK government of intelligence obtained under torture. Every British person […]
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 […]
Via Iain Dale: aaaaargh At least there is one honest man left in the Labour Party.
A reader in Malta sent me this interesting article from the Times of Malta about allegations that a Maltese diplomat based in Libya gave the British important secrets back in 1971. Thus: Ives de Barro – working at the Maltese Embassy in Libya in 1971 – was giving the British […]
Has the vast blob of financial support now made available to Greece saved the Eurozone? Or merely bought time? Baseline Scenario drills down into what it says is the core question (my emphasis): If Mr. Trichet and Mr. Strauss-Kahn were honest, they would admit to Ms. Merkel “we messed up […]
If (as is surely the case) you want an easy link to my recent pieces for DIPLOMAT magazine, here it is.
The Week has no online edition, which makes it annoyingly difficult to read it for free. Still, its latest Wit & Wisdom column makes magnificent reading, quoting this famous passage as it appeared in The Times: … [the egregious] Common Agricultural Policy (the “most stupid immoral state-subsidised policy in human history, […]
Here is the long Mail Online account of the encounter between Gordon Brown and Mrs Gillian Duffy. It squeezes more than maximum juice out of this fleeting encounter, yet the words of Mrs Duffy and the accompanying pictures are touching: ‘There’s been a development,’ she was told by a reporter from […]
