From chaos to cosmos
By way of contrast with the speech by Tony Blair, and to prove that this blog is not always critical of politicians, let me refer you to the recent pamphlet […]
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The war is nearly over
An intriguing report by the BBC earlier this week that Britain’s war debts are still being paid off, but will be cleared by the end of the year. (Read the
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The great illusion
Chinese president Hu Jintao will visit the United States this week, to meet George W Bush. What will they find to talk about? President Bush, after all, is a self-styled
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Supranationalism is not a gaffe
By Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 19 May 2005 The fuss last week over whether Commission Vice-President Margot Wallström actually made those reported remarks about intergovernmentalism leading to war does not
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Supranationalism
One of the first things I learned about the etiquette of debating politics on the internet was that the first person to mention Hitler is deemed to have lost the
War and European integration
My earlier posting about the causes of war seems to have raised same eyebrows. I promised to explain. The point I made was that previous wars in Europe were caused
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Delay at the station
30 January 2005 I spent two hours waiting at Waterloo station on Friday evening, delayed by the discovery of a bomb at the Channel Tunnel. It was not
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Democracies can be warmongers too
Democracies may find it harder to go to war but they do not find it impossible. As Sir Samuel Brittan acknowledges, the human tendency to divide the world into in-groups
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Sir Peter Ustinov (1921 – 2004)
I was privileged to have Sir Peter as a friend for many years. He became the President of the Word Federalist Movement, an international NGO which promotes greater global governance
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Missile defence: the wrong route to peace
A submission to the Ministry of Defence by Federal Union, 19 January 2003 1. This submission falls into four parts. First, what is Federal Union? Secondly, what is missile defence?
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