Update: More here. * * * * * Looking this morning on the FCO’s website for the official statement of grovelling apology over the infamous Pope Visit memo, I spotted this horror: 12 Feb: The Chandler’s – FCO’s position misrepresented Under Latest News, nothing. So, over to the mainsteam media. […]
A reader prompted by my piece on Srebrenica points me to this long analysis by Milivoje Ivaniševi
My good deed today. As I was walking the dawg, I spotted a tiny lamb which had wriggled under a fence and was separated unhappily from Mother Sheep in the adjacent field. After some tomfoolery in the nettles I nabbed said lamb, and suppressing my baser instincts ("mmm – lamb […]
An elegant posting by Tim Worstall on how far the UK Lib Dems are ‘really’ Left or Right: … the OB Lib Dems are most certainly not of the left. They’re of the right: do what is necessary to get the economy right, use markets wherever possible, get the economics of […]
Is hosted by Trixy. Mainly dwelling on volcanic eruptions – and the fine dust of tedium settling on the UK as the general election campaign proceeds.
With the state funeral of President Kaczynski completed, attention now will turn to the cause of the crash at Smolensk airport. Not before a surprisingly weak article by Denis Dutton and Adam Chmielewski appears at Open Democracy: The air-crash which decapitated Poland’s state elite may owe something to reckless behaviour, […]
President Lech Kaczynski and Maria Kaczynska have been buried with the highest Polish honours in Cracow. Some memories of people whom I knew on the doomed flight to Smolensk. Such as former young communist Jerzy Smajdzinski who adapted well to democracy and rose to become Poland Defence Minister. I recall […]
I was in Geneva on manoeuvres with ADRg Ambassadors and poised to return to the UK when we heard about the volcano dust problem. So we took a train from Geneva to Paris, stayed overnight in a modest but very helpful Paris hotel, then went by train to Caen and […]
My name sporadically pops up on a trashy Maltese site Taste Your Own Medicine set up specifically to lambast Daphne Caruana Galizia. My attempt to post a comment of clarification on this site has (as far as I can tell) failed: Dear TYOM, I see that I am mentioned […]
Michael Dembinski counts the days: From Poland regaining independence at the end of World War I to the Poland’s invasion by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union – 7,615 days … From Poland regaining democracy to the Smolensk air crash – 7,615 days.
