Opinion

Labour’s FCO: Declined, Fallen

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. […]

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Srebrenica: A Dirty Serb View Of The ‘Context’

A reader prompted by my piece on Srebrenica points me to this long analysis by Milivoje Ivaniševi

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Sheepish

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 […]

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Left By Outcome v Left By Process

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 […]

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Britblog Roundup

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.

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Poland’s Black Box

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, […]

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Poland Mourns

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 […]

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ADRg Ambassadors: Back Home

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 […]

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Malta Rubbish

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 […]

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Polish Disaster

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.

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