The Hague

So it's supposed to govern things like hydroelectric dams and other projects that could divert or reduce the water flow downstream in the Indus Valley.

The permanent court of arbitration at The Hague ruled earlier this week that the Indian government is still bound by the terms of that treaty.

despite saying, you know, it's suspended and it's not going back to it.

So this is a win for Pakistan in an international forum.

I found Slobodan Milosevic to actually be quite a sympathetic figure.

What was done to him with the Hague, he was quite literally killed by being put on trial.

That was grotesque.

I've actually always considered myself to be pretty sympathetic to the Chetnik cause.

You know, I mean, it basically...

One of the reasons why, again, like Reagan's people and then Bush's people, initially Milosevic was their guy is because he was basically doing, he was basically acting like a post-communist, like European politician is supposed to act.

You know, so this, the fact he was hailed into the Hague, you know, I think, you know, he, he, he died when he was on trial and I, but I, I thought he acquitted himself very honorably.

Um, you know, I, like, and we'll, and we'll get into that in the, um, in the bookend

We've seen that a year ago during Anchorage and so on, how desperately the Europeans try to insert themselves, especially with Emmanuel Macron, but others as well, insert themselves into the process and demand a seat at the table in order to prevent the Americans from giving away anything very important.

Again, this is what also my quote of the commentariat always criticizes as the pro-war stance, right? Making sure that a realistic peace agreement cannot manifest, right? Because the European idea of peace is Russia giving back everything, including Crimea and Vladimir Putin in The Hague, and Russia maybe split up into bits and pieces.

That is their idea of a peace agreement.

So it is kind of bizarre, but then you also would say that do the Chinese perceive it also as a bizarre episode or do your Chinese colleagues actually sometimes ask you why does Russia not make peace?

So it's supposed to govern things like hydroelectric dams and other projects that could divert or reduce the water flow downstream in the Indus Valley.

The permanent court of arbitration at The Hague ruled earlier this week that the Indian government is still bound by the terms of that treaty.

despite saying it's suspended and it's not going back to it.

So this is a win for Pakistan in an international forum.

Right.

The former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic has been found dead in his prison cell in The Hague in the Netherlands.

Wow.

This monster who committed genocide in his country.

just made it...

We're asking the Hague for help.

We want to just have an international trial and see who's guilty.

We're not going to militarize this.

Yeah.

and that brings us to the next castle and this time a real one in the hague uh in particular uh a specific tower of the former castle uh gordon you went there this week or uh i didn't

go there no um a little miniature turret uh this is uh the taunter the pro the uh which is the the little tower next to the Mauritshuis at the back of the Binnenhof which has most recently been occupied by the Prime Minister since the early 1980s and Rob Jetton got to go into Torontia for the first time of course because since he became Prime Minister he hasn't been able to work there It's because of the large-scale renovation of the Binnenhof complex and that means everything is closed off and the Binnenhof had to be evacuated.

Dix-Kolf had to be practically dragged, kicking and screaming out of it because he didn't want to move out.

On the orders of the mayor of the Hague, right? The mayor of the Hague ordered the prime minister to leave his office, yes.

And shortly afterwards he did in fact leave the office of prime minister for good because the coalition

collapsed.

It was the Tower of Babylon of the Golden Age, I think.

Maybe they're actually Russian.

Or they were the ones who were marching in The Hague on this big white pride protest, and they were dressing up like Nazis, doing cosplay.

There's a word for people who dress up as Nazis.

And it was scary.

He was also one of the regulars at the Faisal Mosque.

I think Sir Chaudhry Zafula Khan, may Allah be pleased with him, who was a man of many roles and a man of many titles at the UN or the Hague.

He was also quite... played a fundamental role in that area and that era and the history of that mosque itself.

Looking at the bigger picture, How has the community, how has the MDA communities, this century-long presence, the two examples that you've mentioned, how has that quietly woven itself into the broader cultural fabric of British history? Because even in today, in 2026, people think, and there's still the question about, Does Islam belong here? Is there a place for Islam in this society, in this day and age, in the West? Clearly, that's a question that is not relevant for the community, is it?