ted mark thank you arthur it's called the progressive says excellent interview the king 48 in part 2 next week let says what an amazing interview so happy craig wants an independent scotland a mother says you all need to listen to the sure the interviews create money certainly shows what unscrupulous governments do to protect themselves william says wow the british and american atrocities just keep coming and getting worse jim says excellent video should be compulsory viewing robert says this must be one of the most interesting programs currently louis says sadly determination to tackle lies manipulation bullying greta caucus he tends to lead to paying a heavy price i'm glad craig mundie persists and finally merely says love watching your show and you give interesting topics thank you mary craig mundie his foreign office could in tatters his personal life in chaos under self in jeopardy alex picks up the story with him and how he find

a new platform on social media. i'll tell you that. once our man in task can't her majesty's ambassador does back to stand and know that one of the foremost bloggers in the land craig you've continued is figure out say well it's a be a stylish know even a little as the war came to a conclusion and people start boat started to a marriage in there that was interesting was huge opposition before it started there was a period where the opposition was muted and then the started to emerge and as people realized the extent of the false trail of intelligence there many of the views which at loop controversial even crackpot started to suddenly gain cup and bet but they too. i was vindicated if you like in public in my assessment of the value of the intelligence i used to be head of the f c o unit

sponsible for surveillance of iraqi attempts at weapons procurement so i knew very well that the dossier on a darkie weapons of mass destruction was nonsense and i confirmed it with people including people who had been involved indicting it so i had known all along even from within the office and even from literally the day it was produced that the intelligence on iraq and w m d was fake but then you got the electoral validation you're looking for not not from a parliamentary constituency but from your old university and deaver where you were elected the lord rector of very interesting and you know unique aspect of the old university system in scotland where the the head of the university is an elected post elected by the students in the main but some university students and staff so done the universe to late to judas or the lord

great of how did you feel about that but for 2. great to come back as victor especially 20 years or 25 years after of university had amended its charter to stop people to. stick. who voted you to stand and why i was invited by by some students who were against the war in iraq and who. had seen me as you know a champion for antiwar views they could put up a counter that vector in the university which was very establishment dominated and in which the administration had rather close ties to new labor and of course you were up against as in one of your being of some of the rather more formidable in the politicians want to scold and sporting stars a very famous rugby player so ho ho is that call and curse the. debate weapons of mass destruction and what was the scope of their lives all the spots that. further

. and the nickel moves by my major opponent in in the election the position effect in my view is very important because it gives the student a bill say in and running of the university the university administration much more interested in just having celebrity directors who will carry out a p.r. goal but won't intervene on questions like. the or class sizes or costs of student accommodation but hasn't worked for the university of the deal because they're for the success the right those are the the radical save the politics because i would blame cos the they were black those were your successes and bloody example no i i'm happy to say that i started a new chain of. activist directors who victor before me was was living a very bosome the back of a television interview of course but nonetheless so there you are you stablish this

position ever we vindicated and validated by the by the student body but nonetheless your position against the torture of which everybody should support but stablish in them because by then had not the subsequent foreign secretary amended deficient position that illegal then dition saw your future take its way but you continued to pursue the radical end of politics and i'm quite interested this that as to why having established a position been vindicated that in large measure you didn't then say well perhaps sustained to to look at a more establishment political career or perhaps don't you know i i don't think i ever considered looking for a mainstream career again i felt i'd a done that and done it in a very successfully in in many ways so what i'd seen the actions of the state in obviously it's complicit. and torture in falsifying of the evidence on iraq in w

m d had led me to the conclusion that the british state itself was something which needed to be undermined it was not a tool for good in the world i had had a belief in scottish independence really since my student days went when i had been a good friend of gordon wilson who was then leader of the s.n.p. and who i had the proposed as a candidate to be vector of university successfully i was wrecked on my time and gordon who did it converted me to scottish independence and i started to see scottish independence not only as something desirable in itself but as the tool which would break up the united kingdom and that then cause real problems for the neo imperialist neo conservative foreign policy being pursued by the u.s. and the u.k. so you and baby attachment discussion was as a radical liberal student did the leader of the scottish national park the member

of parliament for the stand for for rep the foot of the universe so the question would be whether johnny come lately discussion to be returned to scotland and 24 to help the in the referendum campaign laid by some graves name a can't remember but but nonetheless a very exciting and turbulent time scottish politics so what was your role in the campaign and how did you feel that the become pm vindicate your hopes that radicalism would be alive in the in the country of europe for 4 years had come up in 201220132 speak to a couple of bodies like the scottish independence convention start giving speeches on on independence the end of 2013 awards i started to do more and more and by the time the beth end and was call i was working almost full time on it and i decided well i'd better move up to scotland. and i gave

a large number speeches all down the country during the journey the campaign and the excitement of it the tremendous speed of community involvement and the fact you know ordinary people who hadn't previously taken much interest in politics were coming out and talking not just about independence but about what kind of society they wished scotland to be post-independence it was the most invigorating experience of my entire life the communal feel of it was just fantastic and to be in the middle of that in the middle of a campaign and to be living through a period that felt there pollution every day and night and the time when political ideas spawned from the vatican side of politics were very openly being canvassed and discussed in the street it was it was a life for me experience for me it came later in my life but it absolutely transfigured my view of you know what a good life is and what we should do and how we should work in society and you

sought to be less of the candidate and 2050 election of course the hopes were dashed by the vetting committee who perhaps phoned you a bit hot to handle yeah that's one of the. the many disappointments of my life was in fact after my activity in a referendum campaign 13 constituency associations of the s. and p. their executives invited me to put myself forward as a candidate in 13 different constituencies might migrate while he was working out which ones to go for the. but then i work i was turned down by the central vetting committee on the grounds they said that they could not be sure that i would follow party discipline and of course oh quite right i wouldn't follow the party discipline but but weber you know we should have given your past marks for honesty as. well exactly i didn't lie in the in the betting meeting maybe i should but we're. with the general form and. people asked the question will you always abide

by that the party for party discipline you're you're meant to say yes to that announcer to that question but you must have been boy to see that the s. and p. 56 m.p.'s 59 constituencies but by then of course you had found another outlet for your views this incredibly successful blog. i mean how many dedicated followers know it's a band the 300000 unique visitor mark but individual blog articles might get as much as 1200000 people 1200000 though the jews have any conception either when this stuff blow when you 1st encountered the the social media revolution that you would end up writing one of the most popular and and well there blogs pop on the planet for that matter although i suspect some of these 1200000 may be your own colleagues

in the far north is just jef you know what you're up to it's certainly widely read by quite a lot of people in the form of office. i started to actually but nobody noticed back when i was standing against jack straw than in black and i remember if we got 300 people in a day to beat it i was really excited the idea that you would be getting up towards millions saying you know absolutely impossible and then in the run up to 2014 a scottish independence referendum arrives and you are talking to the land of your forebears to campaign in it and by then you for stablished the extraordinary successful blog the creek valley blog these are the issues were discussed in the 2nd part was interviewed. by survival guide stating yes i want to start.

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me welcome back alex is into being top political blogger creek mighty we took up the story with craig launching one of the best supported political blogs in the country. we're been talking about the issues that have been there at the sky asked in your blog some of these what do you what's the one you've been more spode of over the last year or 2 what was the issue you think as the wireless to the greatest response of where you think. you have said something that made a great deal to people the largest number of viewers i've ever had for an individual article 1200000 on my own blog and you must remember that of course you can multiply about because popular articles always reproduced all over the internet and that was an article on the papers which were released giving details of

people's offshore banking and tax dodging activities and there's a run of geishas of course a range of countries and leave incomes is unexpectedly way counseling the world were caught up in the in the in this release of information it did but the point which i made was that there was a quite extraordinary a lack of americans featuring in these papers and very few and no major companies or no major individuals in either the u.k. or the u.s. this was wildly improbable and in fact the full panama papers never were published there has never been an underage that did release of the clause that we went being so aggressive by wiki leaks which by nature does not suppress those clues got them well upon the papers one at least by by wiki leaks they were released by a group called the committee of investigative journalists because the source who

got them gave them not to wiki leaks but to a german newspaper who shared them through these journalistic compile and the newspapers deducted them and the point which i was making about it was that been much better been given to wiki leaks or just released over the net so we could actually see by. war material and it did feel very much like it was they selective in terms of what material was being released and what material was being highlighted and the guy did the leasing through the mainstream media is not a sensible way if you want to get secrets out into the public so that's that was your most popular most read blog in recent times and one of the most controversial of course has been your views on the scripts and the poisoning do you think. given what spin and norton you would have just stanley if you're your conclusions i

don't think it's been proved tovan who they were and it's worth noting that the addressed wasn't for them has not been amended into the names of the people supposedly identified by by bearing cat but they plainly were not the innocent tourists who were made out to be. we really do not know what happened the british government story is absolutely full of holes. i did not call about a month ago on 10 points that i don't believe on the script story and nobody's been able to refute or even attempted to refute the 10 points and that's one of the get controversies of that time but other food listen feature in your blog that sugar sailors' which does the sure has done a couple of programs on i read your blog on the cheerios aliens and what stood out from other reports was that you could clearly loot ever the i water of the national court ready of justice judgement of which cigar other obvious thing for for

journalists to do but you'd certainly done it why do you think it is in the conventional news media are not prepared or able to give all the time to have the textual examination of the i.c.j. what are when the issued a stinging stinging condemnation of the treatment of the sugar saleable i spent over 60 hours reading every detail not of just to be icy. opinion and advisory opinions but all the legal judgments in the u.k. from a supreme court in the high court and all the parliamentary debates and just searching the searching researching and sadly in the corporate media they're no longer prepared to put the kind of resources into investigative journalism that's required to get that depth of knowledge and understanding of the subject i should say you know i was horrified by the things i discovered myself and by just how macchiavelli and that the machinations of the british government have been well that of course

as a bit of stablish for the there is c.j. but of other things with potential criticism or isn't that a criticism that people would make many of us were colleagues perhaps you'll look at every issue and always assume the worst of the authorities or the american authorities i mean take the recent activities the sport of julian assange which is that another save to the arc of might there not be something in the in the view that willingly or unwillingly of the wiki leaks process has been used to to undermine as opposed to consultative the moccasin on the 1st question i don't think i i inevitably take an anti western line let me put it that way for example on the ukraine my views are closer to the western line than they are to the russian line just about as one example on wiki leaks you know we should remember that wiki leaks 1st came to build prominence with the lease of the

afghan and iraqi war logs which gave enormous detail of the actual definite walk and the in of the dreadful things that are being done. in our name. my take off article due on the wiki leaks leaked american diplomatic cable which details the meeting between british and american diplomats where they were making up this idea of the clearing an environmental protection zone a maritime protection zone around and that is relatively recent of course here people think the earth the sugar sale of story just speaks ill of one of my greek heroes howard wilson the british prime minister of the sixty's and seventy's of that particular episode was much much more recent that was the most recent labor government activities of the americans to the detriment of the chigger sailors tried and david miliband was dressing up as environmentalism be exclusion of the

islanders for met islands on the ground they would be fishing which is appalling but they it was absolutely cynical stated in terms in that meeting of the environmental lobby is stronger than the che goss lobby before this was a good political move to justify excluding the islanders from their own island and the tabulation though to keep proceeding on these causes that your blog will still be there that they were both fear or favor or exposing what you can of the truth of giving your trenchant opinions i certainly intend to carry on i would say i don't expect everyone to give everything on my book i possibly don't give of. the idea is to provoke forte and give alternative viewpoint but a well be searched and grounded always viewpoint and better and tend to keep on doing every your career. as you look to the being politics not less the

establishment vote this is what politicians are stablish for office who you flew for a bit of thinking by so robin cook and the ethical foreign policy you attempted to pursue from 97 on what's no that came to earth and then for internal machinations but did you think that would have been a credible and possible stance strategy for a belief for incepted to pursue all your all the forces one way or another would've pulled the rug from under that now i think robin cook was essentially a good man and was trying to do the right thing in seeking a foreign policy based on most valid and came close to succeeding in some ways but was of course stymied by by tony blair and others the campbell in many ways and in fact within a couple of weeks of his taking office he was over goold at cabinet on the sale of

pork jets to indonesia were being you know used for bombing against to more so he was always fighting in an uphill battle against the. forces of evil i think is not too strong a term but that would dominating new labor was the feeling in the foreign office from rob and became forms that here's something new different the may be a chance to pursue a different approach to things or was it just trepidation that a lot of people but it has to behave out of date i think the majority view in the foreign office was hostile to robin cook and to the idea of a more moral foreign policy the people in the form office like to see themselves as practicing they'll polity can being the masters of dark arts of diplomacy and be the balance of opinion in. in the inside the fun of it is actually quite nightwing

contrary to popular myth there were a few of us who were extremely hopeful and you know i had joined a foreign office straight from university and then i'd spent 12 years working for tor the government after about a period of time the chances of a change were very in the grating for many of us but that unfortunately although he tried to do the right things in many ways and he was going to allow the cheek assignment as back to jiggle simons for example but that's precisely the kind of these and why he was eventually forced out of the job i mean all my sources tell me that recently you've been in a click of 2 of of pakistan and among your other lead cricketers who are all of the 2 of us peter robert and st louis probably a journalist i'm just interested to hoe you and peter go on in the trip and also all the joy in the gaves. now didn't we won any games that peter and i get on very

well we have common beliefs particularly in civil liberties pete peter's a very old fashioned kind of tory but sadly is becoming extinct in many ways i think who you know has firmly neutered right wing views but does believe in freedom does believe in individual liberty and does believe in social conscience and i've never chosen my friends by. by having similar political views to to me of ways maybe i wouldn't have made it and so what you're telling me is that somebody from the radical edge of commentary some of the. conservative libertarian by the principal even these forces can buy couldn't with a single given pakistan. i bet they'd that that's true we were bamboozled by spin of a different guy. what i can do is present you with

the quiff is a good food free of that you do the quick quiz give a quick load or we'll maybe maybe friends we can all this blog about it thank you very much thank you so much thank you for this and. we hope that this in-depth interview with craig marti has offered an insight into the characters of one of the most trenchant critics of u.k. foreign policy and fiercest advocates for the global protection of human rights his cloak is not flashy and the site pretty rudimentary in social media terms its popularity is sustained on content alone he has often been criticized as the conspiracy theorist in kraken self admits the some of his serious have proven to be mistaken tell us 1st critics that a number of his conspiracies have also turned out to be based on fact rather than fiction has dogged pursuit of human rights has cost craig money very dear in

personal terms however information obtained by torture has been shown to be both unreliable and counterproductive while extraordinary rendition has been exposed in both the legislatures of the usa and the u.k. if that is the sadness it is this once the u.k. foreign office seem to recruit in measure of free spirits clearly they are not considered too hard to handle is it ministration of u.k. policy better served as a result i would doses one of the key justifications for social media is that it provides a platform for those who challenge the comfortable assumptions of the establishment we should take care that open access to it is not lost or compromised because many contributors have much to offer my despair norma spotted white but much of his content is focused on scottish politics his position then and the u.k.'s top 10 progress is a significant achievement. next week we cast our net across i.d.c.

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