As Georgia burns we look to the FT to guide us through all the complexities. And sure enough: Paris Hilton is no average airhead, as her self-parody shows They’re right. She is way above average airheadnesses. She is top of the airhead range.
As Georgia burns we look to the FT to guide us through all the complexities. And sure enough: Paris Hilton is no average airhead, as her self-parody shows They’re right. She is way above average airheadnesses. She is top of the airhead range.
President Medvedev said Russia’s military aim was to force the Georgians to stop fighting: "Our peacekeepers and the units attached to them are currently carrying out an operation to force the Georgian side to [agree to] peace".
Richard Beeston and Edward Lucas both know what they’re talking about on Georgia. Both wonder if Georgian impulsiveness is not going to backfire. Lucas: It seems Russia is ready to hit back hard, in the hope of squashing the West’s pestilential protégé. In short, it looks more and more as […]
I swung by the FCO the other day to have a chat about Bosnia. The snappy desk officer dealing with this problem now is 24 or thereabouts. Let’s say she is 24. She was born in the year I was British Olympic Attache at the Sarajevo Winter Olympic Games. She was […]
When we get all worked up (pr not) about British blunders and hypocrisy, we tend to lose sight of where they fit in to the greater scheme of things. Pointing to others’ even viler behaviour does not legitimise or make right one’s own. But it just is the case that […]
For those of you with weak memories, here is Arthur Scargill, defiant miners’ leader who crashed to defeat against Margaret Thatcher. He is still whirring away with the Socialist Labour Party, a lumpen Marxist phenomenon of no consequence. But as if for old times’ sake, here he is in the Guardian […]
Remember the heroic fight for freedom by Ezra Levant in Canada over his publication of the dreaded Danish cartoons of Mohamed? He has won! Sort of. He didn’t say I was free. He said I merely met his censorship standards, so I may go. Those are two completely different things. […]
More on the feisty Report by the HoC Public Affairs Select Committee report which came down heavily on FCO rules purporting to limit what diplomats might say after they leave the Service. Craig Murray calls these regulations ‘near-fascistic’: The idea, of course, is that only the ministers’ version of truth will […]
The House of Commons Public Affairs Select Committee has now given its thoughts on the FCO/Cabinet Office rules – tightened after the Craig Murray and Sir Christopher Meyer books – on what diplomats can (or not) say after they leave the Service. Their view: … the results do indeed appear […]
Here is Future One. Martin Jacques gloating over ‘western impotence’ as evidenced by our inability to get what we wanted in Burma or Zimbabwe. In the parallel moral universe of MJ, South Africa’s President Mbeki has "scored a major diplomatic triumph" by getting the two main parties in Zimbabwe to the negotiating […]
