So on towards the policy core of Craig Murray’s Murder in Samarkand – his policy disagreement with the FCO over torture and the War on Terror. In Chapter 9 Craig describes an EU human rights Ambassadorial demarche. I have analysed the genre here. His description bears out my earlier point, […]
Craig Murray has graciously has accepted my proposal of a public debate – venue and format to be agreed. He also rightly has pointed out that I never finished reviewing his book Murder in Samarkand including the key passages about his head-on collision with the FCO over torture and the War on […]
Former Ambassador turned Conspiracy Theoretician Craig Murray has written something really bizarre about the Bob Quick fiasco: Yet in all the acres of coverage in the newspapers, and all the hype on TV, nobody seems to have noticed the real story. It was an accident that Bob Quick had his […]
Is here, hosted by Trixy at Is there more to life than shoes? A question which goes unanswered, at least explicitly. It links inter alia to the most important posting former Ambassador Craig Murray has ever posted, even if he says so himself. The subject is Torture and what he says […]
Craig Murray is busy drumming up interest in his new book about dirty dealings in Africa. He has chosen some supposedly good quotes from this text to help this effort. What do his readers think about them? Many of them are so blindingly silly and/or vulgar that they will do his […]
Remember former Ambassador Craig Murray’s problems in getting a publisher for his new book because it might attract a heavy libel writ? He is pressing on by publishing it on/via the Internet. Let the legal fun and games begin.
Chapter 7 of Craig Murray’s book describes his first serious skirmish with the FCO, over a speech he makes about human rights. By the date of the speech he has been in Uzbekistan exactly 56 days. His nonetheless bold aim: … to fracture what I believed had become a conspiracy of silence by […]
Feuding as he already is with his lead FCO department, Craig Murray sits down to write a strong speech on Uzbekistan human rights issues. He sends a draft to London, to FCO Human Rights Department led by his old pal (and mine) Jon Benjamin – himself something of a post-Sovietologist […]
After a long break (exhaustion) we return to working our way through Craig Murray’s Murder in Samarkand. Chapters 5 and 6 give us a lively account of Craig’s first major foray deep into Uzbekistan (the Ferghana Valley), complete with accompanying local KGB-style minders. He stays in dirty, basic hotels ("I felt […]
Craig Murray is having more problems getting his views published, this time on various important African issues. He complains at great length that various concerns expressed by his lawyers and publishers about passages in his new book amount to ‘censorship’ and a massive suppression of free speech: … under this country’s […]
