Sandals or jackboots?
Last Thursday’s blog post about Daniel Hannan’s view of Iceland has provoked a response. The Conservative MEP has replied in his blog on the Telegraph website (read it here). Aside […]
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Nick Clegg: a blunder, not a crime
It seems that Nick Clegg is still adapting to government. Describing the Iraq war as “illegal”, as he did in the House of Commons yesterday, may have made sense as
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A politician thinking small
Conservative anti-European MEP Daniel Hannan writes from Iceland that, rather than bailing out the banks, they should have been allowed to crash. The apparent health of the Icelandic economy is
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It’s a federal system, stupid
James Kirkup in the Daily Telegraph politics blog today describes very well the background to the decision to release the Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi. Specifically, he explains why the
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Britain and its allies
Having criticised the new government’s policy on Afghanistan earlier in the week, this blog can also praise it, too. Specifically, the speech by armed forces minister Nick Harvey to the
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Who speaks for Europe?
More of the fruits of Lisbon treaty: there is a proposal that the European Union should get the right to speak at the United Nations General Assembly. At present, the
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The Afghan war: a lesson from history
Numerous commentators have looked for historical parallels for the war in Afghanistan, the repeated attempts at occupation by the British during the 19th century and the Soviet invasion in 1979
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Michael White: an apology
Veteran Guardian political commentator Michael White has called for an apology from politicians who were in favour of joining the euro because of how things have turned out now. “But
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The new foreign policy of William Hague
William Hague yesterday made the first of what he intends to be four speeches laying out the foreign policy of the new government. (Read it here.) His speech was as
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Why the fuss about Obama’s anti-British campaign?
I was interviewed on the radio yesterday about the so-called Special Relationship, and the possible harm that was being done to it by President Obama’s attacks on BP. “British Petroleum”,
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