India sees Balochistan as payback for Pakistani meddling in Kashmir – which explains why Pakistani generals despise the nationalists so much.
"Worse still," says Mr Cleasby, "is the political control and meddling in management which have driven some senior staff out and stopped others applying for jobs here".
In his speech, Mr Clegg said the EU must "stop meddling" in things which are the preserve of member states and national parliaments should have the right to reject "unacceptable" proposals.
The United States and other Western powers have cautioned outsiders against meddling in Somalia, which has no single ruling authority and can be manipulated by anyone with money and guns.
For their part, Egyptians see Washington as high-handed and say it is meddling in affairs in which it has no business.
But if he agrees to a public duel with the first minister, going back on his own contention that this is a discussion for the Scottish people, he will be painted as meddling in affairs in which he has no ultimate say, or at least no vote.
More concerning is Yang's desire to meddle in journalism, which will likely play right into the worst fears of conspiratorial right-wingers.
The civil servants have made a pretty good hash of things at the MoD over the past decade, often meddling in operational matters in which their expertise is limited on non-existent.
Strzok, who had a key role in the counterintelligence investigation of Russian meddling, exchanged text messages in which he disparaged Trump, in what must surely have been the first case in history in which an investigator held one of his targets in low esteem.
Her preferred formulation is "bureaucratic authoritarianism .Another analyst, Andrei Illarionov, used to talk of the "Venezuela model", in which state meddling in energy destabilises the economy (this may explain why he is no longer Mr Putin's economic adviser).
The corporate victim that almost always grabs this dubious spotlight is the healthcare industry — the second-largest industry in the U.S. and one in which hacker meddling of operations not only costs lots of time, money and operational downtime, but threatens lives.
