In the furore about reported failings in the National Health Service recently, Daniel Hannan MEP remarked that: Any organisation that is treated as being beyond reproach is bound in time […]
Any institution needs its critics Read More »
Wednesday, 27 June 2012, 18:30 until 20:00 LSE, Clement House 2.02, click here for a map Daniele Archibugi, Noam Chomsky, Richard Falk, David Held, Fernando Iglesias, Lucio Levi, Giacomo Marramao,
Manifesto for a global democracy (27 June 2012) Read More »
I wrote on this blog recently of the United Nations as having the weakness that it represents only states and not peoples. Here is an example of the consequences of
States or citizens – the flag reveals all Read More »
26 September · 18:30 – 21:00 Upstairs at The Cheshire Cheese (NOT Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese on Fleet St) 5, Little Essex Street Temple London WC2R 3LD – map here
Introducing the World Federalist Movement (26 September 2011) Read More »
If the first question to ask about the current UN action in North Africa is, why Libya, then the second question is why Britain. If yesterday’s blog entry is correct
If Libya, why Britain? Read More »
“One logical answer to the EU bloc voting problem is to transform France’s permanent seat on the Security Council into an EU seat. That would appropriately recognize the EU’s power
David Frum: EU seat on the UN Security Council Read More »
Letter published in The Times, 24 September 2010 Sir, If the ability of the United Nations to deliver results is held back by the self-interest of its member states (letter,
The general election prime ministerial debates are dominating political news reporting at the moment, and this blog has never been ready to leave any bandwagon unjumped. However, unlike all the
Those prime ministerial debates Read More »
Michael Ignatieff, Leader of Canadian Liberal Opposition, quoted in interview with Charles Kennedy, The House Magazine, 21/9/09 “In Canada we have a deep, entrenched sense that we are a federal
Michael Ignatieff: What is at stake is no less than the future of global government Read More »
The latest stage in Tony Blair’s farewell tour – his speech in South Africa last Thursday – is one of the most frustrating. (Read the speech here.) It is one
A good man in Africa Read More »
