Mr Dente (as he likes to be addressed) is a "say it like it is" kind of gentleman.  In fact this "say it like it is" mentality is the reason he was fired from his previous job as the British Ambassador for Libya. 

Nobody knows the full extent of what happened at the British Embassy in Tripoli, all we know it involves derogatory remarks about the country's leader Muammar al-Gaddafi's aviator sunglasses. Al Dente has extensive knowledge of politics and is one of our most important international correspondents. He joined CT in 2007, his first report was Al-Qaeda in Giant Pie Threat