At the risk of boring everyone, here is an excellent interview with Jovan Divjak about the Dobrovoljacka St killings and the politics of it all now. It’s in Bosnian/Serbian (not as Google says Croatian), but if you use the Google Translate button you’ll get more than enough of it in […]
Robin Harris, former adviser to Margaret Thatcher, lambasts at NRO the way judicial processes are being used and (he says) abused in the UK for foreign or other political purposes: The British authorities allowed themselves to become dupes of judicial manipulation, and it will be hard to claw back towards […]
Is it money you have now plus money you know you’ll have, or are sure you’ll have? Is it costs you have now plus costs you know you’ll have or are sure you’ll have? What about expected costs which don’t in fact arise or are deferred? How to account for […]
What really happened in chaotic Sarajevo in and around Dobrovoljacka Street on 3 May 1992? The range of views appears to be broadly as follows: Core Serbia/’Serb’ Claim: perfidious massacre of JNA soldiers attempting to withdraw from Sarajevo under UN colours as per an agreement duly reached with the Bosniac leadership, […]
Dnevni Avaz in Sarajevo reports that the UK court has ordered that Ejup Ganic stay in prison for a further week, apparently to give Serbia more time to present evidence against him for the Dobrovoljacka St massacre in 1992. A protest demonstration is to be held outside the British and […]
Over at the latest Crawford Diplomatic Despatch: It all boils down to a profound infantilisation of public life. Government has turned into feckless dim-witted parents who treat their children like spoiled brats. The children themselves duly morph into something neurotic, angry and sly. To win the public’s loathsome brattish affections […]
I have just given a short interview to Radio Free Europe in Sarajevo about the Ganic problem. The interviewer asked a question about the abuse of UK courts for political purposes. I pointed out that there are two completely different issues here, which may (understandably) be merging into one in […]
My Google Spam is doing a noble job in heading off lots of emails from somewhere or other purporting to issue diplomas: BECAUSE YOU DESERVE IT! Is your lack of a degree holding you back from career advancement? Are you having difficulty finding employment in your field of interest because […]
Update: Balkan media are reporting this afternoon that Ganic’s request to be released on bail has been refused by the court in London. B92 says that he may remain detained until 14 March when the deadline for submitting relevant documents expires, but wonders whether there may be a problem with […]
The Daily Telegraph weighs in on Ejup Ganic: Bosnia has demanded his release and supporters claimed Britain had allowed itself to be used as pawn in the long-running battle between the two former Yugoslav nations. The Telegraph quotes both an unnamed spokesman for Lady Thatcher and Robin Harris, her former speechwriter: "She […]
