Tweets seen
Amazing clips of film.
Woolwich Crown Court is high-security. Prisoners are brought to court via an underground tunnel from the nearby Belmarsh Prison. I once had a friend at the Bar who, in the 1990s, did quite a lot of “heavy” crime there, crimes such as security-van jobs and the like.
Craig Murray was H.M. Ambassador to Uzbekistan at one time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Murray, and is now rather dissident.
As previously blogged, the Ukrainian Ambassador whom I accompanied sometime around 1995 to the UK’s biological warfare (etc) centre at Porton Down, Wiltshire, is now the director of a bio-lab in Ukraine: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serhiy_Komisarenko.
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Well said. Political leadership is not the same as being an Army or Royal Marines officer (you cannot simply command people and events, and decisions have to be more nuanced). As the tweeter says, neither is political leadership similar to being a senior legal figure such as the DPP (you cannot simply lay down rules and regulations and/or threaten to use “the full force of the law” when people do not agree).
Come to that, political leadership is also unalike to being a top-level businessman, as Trump is proving to the world. Not everyone wants to “make a deal“. Some people will not “make a deal” under any circumstances, because they or their group, clan, or people are motivated not by a quantifiable outcome such as a profit or loss, but by ideology, or religion, or even a wish for “death or (and/or) glory”.
Ian Robert Millard 