Quick note to inform all eight readers that finally I’ve pulled all the Sandhill Interviews from Sandhill Trek (Radio) and Sandhill Trek (Typepad). The interviews have been gathered as a group of pages that are indexed here. That index is available in the header. The Sandhill Interviews tab in the header includes a drop-down list too. The list includes twenty interviews done over an eighteen month period.
There’s a mothballed computer in this office that contains emails I gathered for two unpublished interviews, both of which gnaw at me from time to time. I have a reasonable, if paranoid, excuse for the uncompleted Euan Semple interview. I was working with Euan when the Downing Street memo was published. Euan had a relationship with the BBC in July, 2024 when Dr. David Kelly died. Most thinking people understood that Britain and the United States had trumped up reasons for the Iraq war, and Kelly had let the cat out of the bag. His “suicide” shifted the story from his charges against the government to a story about the BBC and the pressure they had put on him. This was all before the publication of the Downing Street memo, but the world was already quite aware that Bush had foisted off a war of aggression on our allies and Blair had put both feet in it.
All of the questions I could think to ask Euan had to do with these thorny matters, and rather than turn the Sandhill interviews into a political club, I thought it best to lay that one down.
Regarding the other interview… I hope to resurrect it, so the less said the better!
