Y’all are sitting there pondering one of the great Left issues of the day. Is Facebook part of the class struggle? Are people on Facebook a class, and if so are they exploiting or exploited? Why are new forms of social media so dangerous? Yes, it’s the American Left in […]
Update: this DT Blogs piece makes it to The Browser My latest piece over at Telegraph Blogs looks at how state A sends a message to state B. Not as easy a task as you might think: Diplomats have mulled over these questions for a good 800 years and more. […]
My various postings and pronouncements on the rights and wrongs of the UK government’s ‘threat’ to remove the diplomatic immunity of the Ecuador Embassy in London to enable J Assange to be nabbed have prompted Brian Barder to weigh in. And when Brian weighs in, he does so thoroughly. His […]
Here’s my latest LSE book review, on a new book by Charlie Beckett with James Ball describing the rise and fall of Wikileaks: One of the key advantages of WikiLeaks as seen by its avowedly radical ‘hacktivist’ creators led (loosely speaking) by Julian Assange is that it subverts all existing […]
Here is a handy one-stop-shop for most of my articles for DIPLOMAT magazine. It includes a link to my latest piece on Diplomatic Drafting and Wikileaks: When I was Ambassador in Poland, the FCO published a fat volume of diplomatic despatches from the 1950s and 1960s, so I could see […]
I previously offered some operational ideas for Doing Something about Libya. One of them was this: expert support for opening of all Libyan regime secret police and other archives asap – let the dirty chips lie where they fall (mainly in Moscow?) The more I think about it, the more […]
Via Browser, a superb piece by Jaron Lanier on the deeper meaning of Wikileaks: Julian Assange, in defending his actions sees a vindicating contradiction in this difference: How can information be both dangerous and inconsequential, he asks? He sees information as an abstract free-standing thing, so to him, differences in perspective and […]
Iain Dale has stopped blogging in favour of his LBC and publishing life. Gulp. Every month his site steered some new readers to this one. That will dry up. I must say that whereas he had far too little to say about European issues for my own taste, what I […]
This afternoon I was briefly on LBC with James Whale who asked some questions about the impact of Wikileaking. My core points ran something like this. All organisations including LBC and firms which LBC listeners worked for had some reasonable expectation of privacy. Governments were no different. Some of the […]
