One of the funny things about the BBC is it's so scared of its own reputation that it goes out of its way to placate an imaginary reader. The Times, for all its sins, knows what it is and can just point at the obvious criminality.

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2/2 “all these aspects were actively included in the overall fascisation of public and private life in Serbia. The war actually arrived late: the indifference to and “tolerance” of future genocide in people’s minds were psychologically ready for activation as early as 1989” (Žarana Papić, 1949-2002)

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1/2 “…all these years we went through a whole set of preparations for war: verbal and visual, emotional and cognitive, mental (or even mystical) and public, horizontal and vertical, time and timelessness, spatial and a-spatial…”

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I have been working on stories about Mladic since I started in journalism in the late 199s covering the ICTY. When I moved to Serbia the 2010s I covered his 2011 arrest. Since I moved back to The Hague in 2015 I covered his trial and conviction and now his death. www.reuters.com/world/bosnia...

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Last weekend, Volodymyr Zelenskyy declared that Ukraine would continue not to recognize Kosovo’s independence. That drew a sharp response from Pristina.

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