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foreign policy

How we wish he'd go away...

     
      This week the spectral figure of Al-Megrahi came back to haunt the Scottish government. Pictures of the released Lockerbie bomber wheeled from his deathbed to a rally of Gaddafi supporters revived angst amongst victims’ families in the US and continued mixed backing and condemnation for Kenny MacAskill at home.
 
      Eddie Barnes in today’sScotland on Sundaysays the Justice for Megrahi group is calling for us to open the door of Greenock Prison for him to return, rather than face the extradition being eyed up by US senators led once more by Robert Menendez.

A period of silence ...

    Our readers (I live in hope) will have been following the daily dramas unfolding in Egypt.
 
    Even so, they may have missed our faintly ridiculous,  so far apparently incompetent and embarrassingly home-grown European Foreign Policy Commissioner, who said,“[there is] the need for an orderly transition and concrete and decisive measures...”
 
   We actually pay for this school of the ******** obvious nonsense from an unelected (both in the UK and in Europe) bureaucrat operating so far beyond her competence as to be positively dangerous.