My former Deputy from the Embassy in Warsaw, the redoubtable Patrick Davies, opted for a sleepy posting in Tehran after all the turmoil of Polish politics. Imagine his surprise to find himself splashed in the Times – for attending a ceremony at which Iran’s spiritual leader officially endorsed President Ahmadinejad. […]
… hosted by a Very British dude is up. Look out for: this cross letter insisting that excessively fat people should stop living off others and Take Responsibility a long list of novels set in the Middle Ages (all of which look pretty ghastly to me, but you shouldn’t judge […]
Tom Watson MP opposes privatising Radio 1: Radio One provides unique high quality content to a young audience. It engages them in important social action campaigns and provides a first class news service, second to none on any other BBC network. That’s before you begin to look at its broad […]
Update: welcome Iain Dale readers. Loftily principled Edward McMillan-Scott (MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber) weighs in on the Kaminski saga: On July 14, in Strasbourg, I stood and won against a Polish MEP, Michal Kaminski, for the post of Vice-President of the European Parliament, because he symbolised the rise […]
Foreign Secretary David Miliband has made an extraordinary intervention in the controversy about the Conservatives and Michal Kaminski: "The British public rightly judge politicians by their actions. So far, they haven’t had much to go on with David Cameron. But this reversion to the right-wing extremes of his own party […]
Timothy Garton Ash (whom I know and respect of old) bangs on again about the UK Conservative Party’s engagement in the newly formed European Conservatives and Reformists formation within the European Parliament: The farce of David Cameron’s Latvian legion becomes more ridiculous by the day. Last month, I deplored the […]
Many people wonder why politicians and spinners work so hard on ‘image’ issues, trying to control what images the public see.. This picture shows why. Those fleeting snapshots of a split-second’s lack of concentration can come to define that elusive but real force called Character, in the eyes of friends and […]
Talking of Ghastly Diplomatic Moments, the dismal fate of British diplomat James Hudson prompted this magnificent sentence: his starring role opposite and under two local hookers brought an end to his tour of booty . . . er, duty: one portly bespectacled chap from Whitehall with his dressing gown hanging open quaffing champagne with a […]
My young issue of the non-distaff side had a turbulent upbringing. Between 1996 and 2003 they lived in Russia, Croatia, Bosnia, USA, England, Serbia and Poland. Seven countries in some seven years. This took its toll in educational terms. In Sarajevo they were among the first intake in the newly […]
Is belatedly linked to by me here, hosted by Cabalamat. Look out for Prodicus and a massive array of adjectives on the EU as a Stalinist plot, a point of view unappealing to one of his commenters who says it is instead a fascist plot. And Raedwald looks at liberating road traffic […]
