Chick Yog reveals why John Reid is at the Home Office rather than the Foreign Office - his admiration for a certain war criminal:
In the international arena, Reid, during his drinking days, fell into bad company in the Balkans with the Bosnian Serb mass-murderer Radovan Karadzic, who tops The Hague's International War Crimes Tribunal list of wanted men. Reid has admitted spending three days in 1993 at a luxury Geneva lakeside hotel as a guest of Karadzic. "He used to talk to Karadzic, he admired Karadzic. He mistook the Bosnian Serb project as the inheritor of the united Communist ideal," says Brendan Simms, a Cambridge academic and author of Unfinest Hour: Britain And The Destruction of Bosnia.
That would further explain the "let's be slow to condemn troops that engage in prisoner abuse" stuff.
Justin also gives good expression to what everyone's thinking about the Blair reshuffle:
And where is the fresh meat? Is New Labour really this short of new talent? A radical reshuffle? It’s the Bay City Rollers dressed up to look like the Arctic Monkeys. It’s nothing more than a rearranging of the chairs in a care home sunroom in order to give the residents different views and a bit of stimulation while they’re waiting to die. Won’t somebody please fetch John Prescott a cup of milky tea?
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