Apparently it is the 100th birthday of IBM, the American computer company, formed through a merger of the Tabulating Machine Company, the International Time Recording Company and the Computing Scale […]
World peace through world trade Read More »
The first meeting in the series organised by the Wyndham Place Charlemagne Trust focussed on the question of Terrorism and Religious Extremism. In its second meeting to be held on
Foreign Policy and its Moral Dilemmas: Corruption and Tyranny (23 May 2011) Read More »
Federalism is the political philosophy of the dispersal of power. It proposes the division of political power between levels and institutions of government to achieve the best combination of democracy
Superstate or power-sharing? Read More »
“The union of Europe cannot be based on good will alone. Rules are needed. The tragic events we have lived through and are still witnessing may have made us wiser.
Jean Monnet: “The union of Europe cannot be based on good will alone” Read More »
Environmentalists are angry about the decision by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) at the weekend to reduce the allowable catch next year from 22,000 to
Tuna off the menu and onto the agenda Read More »
The ongoing difficulty the British political establishment is having with allegations of torture reveals some important truths about the world. In essence, the situation seems to be that, while British
Complicity with torture Read More »
Claire Melamed, head of policy at ActionAid, writes in the Guardian today about the G8 summit to be held in Italy this week and whether it would be better if
Not just who but how Read More »
Foreign Office minister Lord Malloch-Brown was in Maputo, Mozambique, to speak about future prospects for political and economic development in Africa. (Read the speech here.) And he did so by
Regional cooperation in Africa Read More »
The recent revelations about MPs’ expense claims had led to a series of newspaper articles now questioning the whole function of having rules as such. Conservative columnists such as Iain
Following the rules Read More »
Having finished reviewing the notes of a talk on the Lisbon treaty I gave at a Civitas conference last month, I turned to the Financial Times and an article by
Process or outcome? Read More »
