Re: Craig Murray is up against it Archived Message Posted by Mary on August 30, 2020, 12:48 pm, in reply to "Craig Murray is up against it" He tweets a link to that piece and also comments on Sir Simon McDonald, latterly PUS FCO. McDonald had produced a puff piece CV on Twitter, together with photos of his four masters at the FCO. ' Sir Simon McDonald @SMcDonaldFCO In 5 yrs as PUS @foreignoffice I have worked for 22 junior ministers, 4 Foreign Secretaries, 3 PMs and 1 Queen. Since Northcote-Trevelyan Report in 1854, Civil Service has been recruited & promoted on merit, providing continuity & Ministers w impartial, objective & honest advice Craig said: 23h Trevelyan of course went on to help starve Ireland as a demonstration of the inevitability market forces. · 23h While Trevelyan prior to his marriage kept a harem of four Indian wives. See my Sikunder Burnes pp 97-8 for the evidence. I am pleased there is now a public appetite for learning the real truth about Britain's once revered Imperial figures. 23h The Northcote-Trevelyan report an interesting topic. One of the things they do not tell you at school is that Trevelyan lived in a menage a trois marriage with Macaulay and Macaulay's sister Hannah. Macaulay had an incestuous relationship with both his sisters.' https://twitter.com/CraigMurrayOrg _____ The Wikipedia entry for Trevelyan is mostly sickly and reverential. No mention of a harem but there is much on his inaction on the Irish famine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Charles_Trevelyan,_1st_Baronet Message Thread: Craig Murray is up against it - Mary August 30, 2020, 12:19 pm Re: Craig Murray is up against it - Mary August 30, 2020, 12:48 pm The ends justify the means.. - Shyaku August 30, 2020, 8:41 pm That second sentence is superbly quotable for the rest of time! Nm - Focus August 30, 2020, 11:27 pm   Searching