Sorry if I implied I was in B&H at the time of the massacres. I wasn't, and equally I don't pontificate about the alleged cowardice of soldiers who refused to lay down their lives as a futile gesture. I was however in Bosnia - the Republika Srpska entity - the day Karadzic was lifted. The most common reaction I heard was that he should be hanged without the time and expense that a trial will cost.

Not quite my view, but I wouldn't be sorry to see him convicted and banged to rights. His alter ego, Dragan Dabic, on the other hand seems to have been a thoroughly decent sort - sociable, urbane, cultured, running his own website and singing traditional songs (accompanying himself on the single-string gusle) in the Madhouse bar, the walls of which are adorned with photos of Karadzic and Mladic. As the Daily Mail's loathesome pontificator par excellence Richard Littlejohn used to say: You couldn't make it up.