already of how he came back to public prominence as a fierce and to stab a critic and one of the u.k.'s most followed political blogs the longest number of viewers over heard from individual article was 1200000 on my own blog and must remember that of course you can multiply because popular articles always reproduced all over the be into that but 1st your tweets messages and e-mails in a terrific response we've had to part one of these interview last week gavin says that was a very revealing and enlightening interview on the show thank you for taking part arthur says craig might be a great guest thanks so much for the part cast version of the sure agree enervation i can i listen while on the move usually on my bike over here in 10 mark thank you arthur it's called the progress of says excellent interview the king 48 in part 2 next week let says what an amazing interview so happy create once an independent scotland a mother says you all need to listen to the sure the interview is craig mundie 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 leads 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 i just health 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 back to stand and know that one of the foremost bloggers in the land craig you 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 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 that 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 couplets but 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 the darky 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 if 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 the unique aspect of the altar diversity system in scotland where the the head of the university is an elected post elected by the students in the main some university students and staff so doesn't the universe still lead to judas or the lord rector of how did you feel about that by port. great to come back as victor especially 20 years or 25 years after of university had amended its charter to stop we thought. it was a good faith to do to stand up 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 dollars some of the rather more formidable no politician want to scold the sporting stars very famous rugby player so ho ho is that qantas the. debate weapons of mass destruction and what was the scope of their lives build this monster that it further. and the nickel moved by my major opponent in in the election the position effect in my view is very important because it gives the students and bill say in the 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 cost of student accommodation but hasn't worked out for the university of the deal because they're for the success rate those are the the radical say the politics because i would bring cox the they were black those were your successes and libya example no i i'm happy to say that i started a new chain of. activist directors the victor before me was was living a very bosome the back of a television interview of course but nonetheless so there you are you stablished dispositional ever we vent. it had been validated by the by the student body but nonetheless your position against the torture of which everybody should support 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 continue to pursue the radical end of politics and i'm quite interested this that as to why having established a position been vindicated that a large measure you didn't then say well perhaps sustained 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 had 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 its complicity in torture in falsifying the b. evidence on iraq and 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 have the baby attachment discussion was a radical liberal student who did the least of the scholars in those biopic the members of parliament done. the. for wrecked of the of the universe so the question would be whether johnny come lately discussion developes been talking to scotland and 24 to help the in that affidavit of campion laid by some graves name

a country member but but nonetheless a very exciting and turbulent. scottish politics so what was your role in the campaign and how did you feel that the become a villain the keep your hopes that radicalism would be alive in the country of europe for fears 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 i started to do more and more and by the time the birth and i'm was called i was working almost full time of it and i decided well i'd better move up to scotland and i gave a large number speeches all around the country during the journey the campaign and the excitement of it the tremendous speed in a 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 their pollution. 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. an s.n.p. candidate and 2050 election are falsely hopes were dashed by the vetting committee who perhaps phoned you a bit hot to handle yeah but one of the. the many disappointments of my life was in

fact after my activity in an effort ended 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 was i was turned down by the central betting 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 party discipline but but whether. we should given your past marks for honesty as. well exactly i didn't lie in the in the betting meeting maybe i should but i think with the general form of people i asked the question will you always abide by that the party for party discipline in your 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.

856 m.p.'s at the 59 constituencies but by then of course you had phoned another outlet for your views this incredibly successful blog a. very dedicated followers no it's a band the 300000 unique visitor mark but individual blog articles might get as much as 1200000 people 1200000 though the jew conception either from the start of the blog of a new fostering count of the the social media revolution that you would end up writing one of the most popular and and well there blogs or on the planet for that matter although i suspect some of these 1200000 may be a year or. colleagues in the photo is just jeff you know what you're up to it's certainly widely read by quite a lot of people in the photo. i started to actually but nobody noticed when i was standing against jack straw didn't him but i remember if we got 300 people in the

day to beat it i was really excited the idea but you would be getting up towards millions you know absolutely impossible and then in the run up to 24 scottish independence referendum arrives and you talking to the law and your forebears to campaign with it and by then you have a stylistic strongly successful blog the big blog these are the issues that will discuss in the 2nd part was the. what is calling his magic internet the new type of digital currency

the centralized digital scarcity chancellor. second for bank that's called the genesis blog for reason because being a civil disobedience a source of optimism because i can control my own financial destiny it's just a new way of coming to consensus it's a game changer in the human history and this is columbus discovering a new world this paradigm shifting technology that transforms economics and finance in a heartbeat the apollo 11 landing on to the max and stacey. is up to the sea on his attorney. or anyone who knows a little bit. yeah it. was a renewal if they give it to you they get out because you got to know people it's you posting that's with me it's your thoughts. that's the thought of you.

if you are. going to. give. welcome back alex is into being top political blogger critic marty we took up the story with craig launching one of the best supported political blokes in the country. we're been talking about the issues that have been there at the sky just 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 wire listed 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 was 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 this a run of gibson's of course a range of countries and leave incomes as unexpectedly like iceland 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 underdog did release of the plot that we went being suggested by wiki leaks which by nature does not suppress those clues got them well

a perma 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 the journalistic compile and the 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 them. 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 of 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's been the norton where 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 are made out to be. as 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 point 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 good controversies of that time but other food listen features in your blog that sugar sailors which is the surest on a couple of programs on i read your blog on the the chigger sailors and what stood out from other reports was that you could clearly loot ever the i water of the

national court of justice judgement of which cigar obvious thing for for journalists to do but you'd certainly done it why do you think it is in the conventional news media i'm not prepared or able to give all the time to have the textual examination of what the i.c.j. what are both when the issued a stinging stinging condemnation of the treatment of the shaders islanders i spent over 60 hours reading every detail not just to be i.c.t. . a 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 researching the searching researching and sadly in the corporate media they're no longer prepared to put the kind of resource 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 and 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 british 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 the 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 democracy 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 actual definite walk and the know the dreadful things that are being done. in our name. my cheek us article drew on wiki leaks leaked american diplomatic cable which detailed 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 no ground and that is relatively recent of course here people think that the sugar salem 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 sale and those that 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 you know they'd be stated in terms in that meeting of the environmental lobby is stronger than the change course lobby before this was a good political mood 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 there were folks fear or favor or exposing what you can of the truth and giving your trenchant opinions i certainly intend to carry on i would say i don't expect everyone to give everything on my block 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 evan your career. as you looked at the being politics not less the establishment vote this is what politicians are stablish from an office who you flew for a bit i'm thinking by so robin cook and the ethical foreign policy you attempted to pursue from 97 on what's know 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 and set it to pursue on your wrist the forces one way. yet another would've pulled it out from under it 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 mood ality 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 over things not too strong a term that were dominating new labor was the feeling in the foreign office for 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 foreign 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 for inside the fun of it is actually quite right wing 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 so that after about a period of time the chances of the change were very invigorating for many of us but that unfortunately although he tried to do the right things in many ways and he was going to allow which a course on and 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 know all my sources tell me that recently you've been a clicker to a for of pakistan and among your other lead cricketers who are all of the 2 of us peter robert and st louis prominent journalist i'm just interested to hoe you and

peter go on in the trip and also all the joy in the games. i did when we won any games that peter and i get on very well we have common beliefs particularly in civil liberties p.p.t. is a very old fashioned kind of toy but sadly it is becoming extinct in many ways i think who you know has a perm need due to right wing views but does believe in freedom does believe in individual liberty and does believe in social conscience i've never chosen my friends by. by having similar political views to to me of was maybe i wouldn't have made it and so what you're telling me is the somebody from the radical edge of commentary some of the. conservative libertarian by the principal even these forces combined couldn't with a single given pakistan. i bet they that that's true we were bamboozled by spin

of a different kind really. a coat with a crook it is for you but what i can do is present you with the quick. as a scott fluid flu you have that what you do with a quick whisk in the quick load or you're merely merely friends and you can always blog about it thank you very much thank you so much thank you thank you. 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 has focused not flashy on the state's pretty dimensions 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 c.d.'s have proven to be mistaken tell us 1st critics that a number of us conspiracies have also turned out to be based on fact rather than

fiction has dogged pursuit of human rights discourse critic marty 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 seemed to recruit a 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 norm spot in 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 either city to interview another top bloke or has attracted a huge audience by providing insight into the insights to any of the politics of northern ireland alex interviews the man behind the memorably named book sluggo too but for now from alex mean all of the team here it's goodbye for now and you'll see you next week. i.

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