Something for the Weekend 66

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I spent last night as a guest at Selwyn College’s Cripps Feast, which was simply splendid. I would never have thought of a well-aged Rioja with the venison, but it worked extremely well.

As it’s the weekend, here’s a BBC interview with Nadira – in Uzbek. It reminds me that I am a remarkably fortunate individual.

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66 thoughts on “Something for the Weekend”

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  • Komodo

    A good Rioja and venison are made for each other. Could have told you that. 🙂
    Even a rough Rioja will do.

  • havantaclu

    Looking forward to my Christmas Eve special – venison casserole and a good Rioja. Venison from Herefordshire. Lovely lean meat.

  • Fedup

    Well what do you know? I can understand bits of Uzbek too, now that is a new turn of events. By the way Craig you lucky devil, you have a nice looking lass there.

  • Frazer

    Hi Craig..hope you enjoyed the vino….completely off topic, but as an ex HMA could use your reflections on this…As u know I have been bottled up in the DRC for the elections for the new President,apart from infrequent reports fron Al Jazeera, nothing much on the media about this…have recieved several e mails from the Embassy in Kinshasa telling me to leave DRC immediately as civil war will start and I could be in danger of immenent death…replied to the e mails and said that Goma is currently fine..no probs..no looting..no shooting ets…recieved a reply today that I should relocate to Gisenyi in Rwanda for ‘my own safety’..As u know I have been in this situation before..Liberia..Sierra Lone..Algeria and Afghanistan etc etc…Are these warnings serious or should I just bugger off ??
    Chers mate and please answer my e mails sometimes…

  • craig Post author

    Frazer

    Hi! Seems alarmist to me. Any French people near you? They will know better.
    Suggest you pay a courtesy call on the local tribal chief, taking a couple of bottles of whisky as a gift, and ask him his advice. As any conflict is likely to be tribal, he should have a good idea what’s brewing, and he will feel you are under his protection.

  • Turan

    “Like Medea I am feeling the absence of my homeland in my heart. Yes, it’s true I have achieved many things here in England, I have freedom, however, I still feel emptiness in my heart because I am far away from my homeland”.

  • John Goss

    Breaking: Mr Craig Murray, don’t know whether you caught it or not but 140 people have been arrested in London outside the Embassy for the Congo. (BBC News breaking). Only half-listening but thought about Fraser’s earlier comment.

  • Fedup

    UN passing resolutions against Isreal, is not news worthy, talk about power of the lobby! Nowhere in the press any mention of these nine resolutions. Although Isreal is objecting and probably intends to make illegal the passing of resolutions against it; as reflected in JTA, (well near enough to)
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    NB The abstainers, and star studded against; Canada, Federated States of Micronesia, Israel, Marshall islands, Nauru, Palau, United States, says it all.

  • glenn

    Consider going veggie, Craig. Think about the ability of creatures to suffer (as they do, on our behalf, in unimaginable numbers), the enormous saving to society, and the huge environmental benefits of a veggie diet. Sure, anyone can argue the toss about free-range or wild this and that, subsistence living and so on. But leading by example counts, not eating meat is a very simple principle to follow. Human rights are not served by ignoring animal rights, I’m always saddened when those with deep regard for one cannot even consider the other.
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    Nah, too easy to wave away, is the usual response. Considering that I could make a one on one difference for the rest of my life, by simply choosing not to eat meat anymore, is an enlightened response. But – just as with human rights and injustices – it’s easier and more comfortable to forget all about it.

  • John Goss

    Glenn, couldn’t agree more. It was the first thing I thought when I read ‘venison’. Being vegetarian makes you bigger, bigger-hearted, bigger-bodied, bigger all round. Look at elephants – the biggest land mammals; giraffes – the tallest. Biggest sea-mammals are plankton-eaters – and the biggest fish. The next time you see a monarch of the glen, admire it’s beauty, don’t weigh it in your mind for its meat. Of course, you might not want to be bigger!!!
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    We no longer have to live in a society with abattoirs. The ingenuity of man has delivered to our tables Quorn products. It has never been easier to become a vegetarian. I made the choice 35 years ago when there was not the variety of alternative protein products. Animals, as Gandhi observed, are poor converters of protein. We could feed at leat seven times as many people from the same area of land if we were all vegetarians. And it does not shorten your life. Some cultures have know this for many centuries. But we all have to choose for ourselves.
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    Other animals to mankind are sentient beings. The monkeys used in experiments by the Dr Mengeles of our universities cower away when their torturers approach. There is no Amnesty International to speak on their individual behalfs. Other animals to man have not got the developed linguistic skills we have, and few in parliament speak up for them. They are abandoned. Why are people not vegetarians? A good question. Why do people eat meat? A better question.

  • Mary

    I thought we were supposed to be up the Swannee or S*** Creek. Instead we have this example of bread and circuses to divert us. Cost? Not mentioned.
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    The charity referred to at the bottom of the page No. 1140863 provides no information.
    The trustees are:
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  • Mary

    Thanks Jives. Why doesn’t Clegg do something to restore his credibility and self esteem and just walk out? He is clinging on to what he perceives as power.

    PS I note that the attack by the European Commissioner on Cameron’s diminution of human rights is going to be ‘thinly veiled’.

  • Jives

    @ Mary
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    I don’t know the answer to that Mary.Perhaps it’s not part of the “programme” between these two?I’ve long suspected there is some kind of spookery that binds these two.Both have a Russian/espionage thread in their backgrounds and am sure they,given the paths of their journeys,would’ve come to the spooks attention in their youth.’Tis but a thought.Possibly Clegg is playing his “part” to the (dead)letter?

  • Mary

    That Royal Barge flummery.
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    The contact quoted is the chairman of Aura, Michael Lockett CVO.
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    […]
    ‘Starting out in advertising, Michael swiftly established his own business, WCT Live, which became the largest independently owned live marketing company. His clients included British Airways, HM Government and ITV. In 1997 he sold the business to Caribiner (now Jack Morton Worldwide, the largest events company in the world) becoming their European Chief Executive and Chairman. Here he worked on Britain’s Presidency of the EC, the Hong Kong Handover Ceremony and the initial development of the Dome project.
    He forged close links with The Royal Household, particularly through his work on the Golden Jubilee Concerts at Buckingham Palace for which he was awarded the CVO.
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    Michael founded LIVE in 2000, the company behind the ‘story’ for London’s successful bid to host the Olympic Games in 2012. LIVE were also responsible for the Swisscom Empire of Silence at the last Swiss National Expo which saw 1.2 million visitors in five months; and not only created, but launched Mercedes Benz World at Brooklands.
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    In addition to the corporate world, Michael has close political links spanning many years, being instrumental in orchestrating the Conservative Party conferences from Thatcher, through to Major, and Cameron.’
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    The final sentence says it all. Enough said.
    http://www.auralimited.co.uk/team.asp#left

  • Mary

    Unbelievable and outrageous. Did they think this would go unnoticed?
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2072639/Tory-MP-pays-Oxford-educated-louts-toasted-Third-Reich-chanted-Hitler-Hitler-Hitler.html
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    From Burley’s Register of Interests.
    Overseas visits
    Name of donor: Conservative Friends of Israel
    Address of donor: 45B Westbourne Terrace, London W2 3UR and Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Israel
    Amount of donation (or estimate of the probable value): £974 from CFI; £574 from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Meals provided by other hosts below registrable threshold.
    Destination of visit: Israel
    Date of visit: 29 May-3 June 2011
    Purpose of visit: fact-finding political delegation to Israel and the West Bank.
    (Registered 8 June 2011)

  • Jives

    Clegg’s first answer on Marr “I’m bitterly disappointed” about events this week.There was “no negotiation at all” on the proposed deal.Goes on to say PM “couldn’t come back to London empty handed.” Tory MP bulldogs “spectacularly mis-guided.” Clegg,in Sheffield,got call at 4 A.M from PM,after talks were over,first thing he told PM was he thought it was “bad for Britain.Also Clegg:”There is no case for a referendum.” A Britain that leaves the EU will be seen as “irrelevant in Wadhingotn D.C.”
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    Ho hum…

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