A democratic scandal
There’s been a lot of reporting lately on what deal the government might have offered Nissan. The Japanese car manufacturer (part-owned by Renault) has a major manufacturing plant at Sunderland …
diplomacy
“Blessed are the peacemakers”: dissecting diplomacy (31 January 2017)
The 2016-17 WPCT Corbishley Lecture will be given by Sir Ivor Roberts KCMG, President, Trinity College, Oxford. The theme will be “Blessed are the peacemakers”: dissecting diplomacy Tuesday 31 January …
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Lessons from Libor for EMU
The European Council meeting has reached yet another agreement that will solve the EU’s financial crisis, this time relating to banking supervision. (Read about it here.) Mark Twain said something …
The European External Action Service: Changing The Nature of Diplomacy or Old Wine in New Bottles? (22-23 November 2012)
A conference at Europe House organised by the London School of Economics, and the Wyndham Place Charlemagne Trust Thursday 22 November and Friday 23 November 2012 National foreign ministries have …
Transparency & privacy, diplomacy & secrecy: where lies the “Common Good”? Exploring the Wikileaks phenomenon (2 June 2011)
The Wyndham Place Charlemagne Trust invites you to a meeting to discuss the relative claims and limitations of “freedom of information” in our modern world Date : Thursday 2 June …
Moral right
Former head of the army, Lord Dannatt, says to the BBC that: “If we thought that Gaddafi had lost the moral right to rule this country a month ago, he …
Lessons from WikiLeaks
The classified documents leaked from the US State Department will cause a lot of embarrassment for a lot of people – the British government minister denounced as a “hound dog” …
Feeble argument by Frattini
Italian foreign minister Franco Frattini has spoken out against the apparent joint preparation of EU decisions by Germany and France. “Pre-cooked decisions” are not acceptable, he says. Indeed, the whole …
What does the Manifesto Club propose instead?
A new publication denounces the European Union’s Brussels establishment (or perhaps that should read Establishment) for its contemptuous attitude towards the public. Bruno Waterfield and Chris Bickerton are critical of …
A visit by the Saudi king (continued)
It is one thing to note how the Saudi king can be invited to make a state visit; it is a different question as to whether he should be. If …