Charles Crawford is a Contributing Editor to The Commentator. A former British Ambassador in Sarajevo, Belgrade and Warsaw, he is now a private consultant and writer: www.charlescrawford.biz. He tweets at @charlescrawford
Serbia, Kosovo & Brussels: Euro-style Mexican Stand-off
The eternal struggle between Serbs and Albanians over that bleak corner of Europe has merely moved in to a new phase
- 22 April 2013
Margaret Thatcher remembered
Thatcher once wistfully said she was so grateful to have friends who appreciated her work because “no-one ever says thank you to politicians”. Some of us do
- 9 April 2013
Football and Fascism
Next time Di Canio is asked about his political opinions, maybe he should meekly reply that he is only following in the tradition of some of the most famous political and intellectual leaders the world has ever seen
- 2 April 2013
Curbing egregious practices: How to miss the point
Free media policies have costs and disadvantages and egregious episodes. But that’s how freedom works. Deal with it
- 25 March 2013
Huhne v Pryce: Justice resoundingly done
The truth is not only the best story. It tends to be a lot cheaper
- 12 March 2013
Will Hutton: Old Nag
Will Hutton has written weekly for the Guardian/Observer for 15 years. Sooner or later anyone that prolific must drift from wisdom to self-parody
- 18 February 2013
Chris Huhne: Moral standards in public life
The fact that Huhne rightly is now the target of mass derision sends a superb market message to everyone else in public life: Don’t break the law, and if you do, don’t lie about it
- 4 February 2013
The adoption industry’s multi-racial remora fish
The adoption industry’s rearguard attempts to disallow ‘mixed-race’ adoptions are now grotesquely conservative
- 4 February 2013
The speech - as a speech
How did Cameron's speech measure up?
- 23 January 2013
Eurozone family has trust issues
In the end, cheating and fecklessness does not work for individuals. And it can't – and more importantly won't – work for governments
- 22 January 2013
UK and EU: The Consent of the Governed?
Can the EU's impenetrable, paternalistic, technocratic model survive for much longer?
- 16 January 2013
The confused politics and policies of risk
Discussing the confusion that we have about risk in our lives, Charles Crawford touches upon health and safety, his time as an Ambassador and the recent Newtown shootings
- 16 December 2012
Leveson: Breaking our spirit, summoning the whip
What is it about the whole Leveson exercise that is so...disturbing?
- 4 December 2012
Argentina's sovereign debt dispute: Spot the vulture
States like Argentina hoot that they are victims of greedy market forces to wriggle out of their obligations. Maybe they are the vultures, preying on the good will of everyone else?
- 28 November 2012
The EU budget row - that isn't
The UK and France both know in advance the outcome of this ostensible 'row', and probably have quietly choreographed the whole ritual to that end
- 23 November 2012
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