Craig Murray: I've had enough

Former British ambassador Craig Murray has come to a realisation:

“I am afraid that the result of Norwich North by-election has severely dented my appetite for blogging.”

You almost feel sorry for him. Whether or not he was “shafted” by New Labour, Murray now recognises that his chosen strategy for raising the profile of human rights issues and, perhaps more important to him, attacking the government has failed.

Murray has flunked his chance. Rather than settling down to a tenacious long campaign with his books and the occasional appearance on Newsnight he opted to become a shrill, voter-repelling and (in the case of his campaign against Jack Straw) very bitter protest candidate.

He should have been Mark Thomas not David Shayler.