The US and Iran are discussing what to do to curb the ISIS advance in Iraq and how to bring stability to this stricken country. The talks are informal and they are at official rather than leader level. But they are happening and that fact alone is the most significant diplomatic development in the this […]
The Tory hierarchy is looking a bit the worse for wear. It is beginning to take on aspects of the last year of the Major and Brown governments, with hostile briefings, rows and leaks, as ambitious acolytes try to distance themselves from a busted flush and position themselves for election defeat followed by a new leader. They […]
Tony Blair, evidently a devout Christian, has an ideology which is curiously old fashioned. He believes that he is a goody, those who see things differently are baddies and all can be put right if you intervene militarily and impose an outcome by force. Democracy will take over, freedom will flower and milk and honey […]
We are now watching the final outcome of the post WWI settlement, when France and Britain divided the spoils of the defeated Ottoman Empire. They drew lines on a map and created two counties, one a republic, Syria, and one a monarchy, Iraq. The boundaries of these countries, within which some of the world’s oldest […]
Last night’s speeches at the Mansion House were refreshing in that George Osborne, who had remained indifferent from the carefully calibrated warnings from the previous governor, Sir Mervyn, now Lord, King about various aspects of the economy, woke up at last to the dangers of house prices and a debt fueled recovery. Mark Carney warned of […]
The answer is both. It is a sign that concentrating all power to the centre with virtually nothing between governors and government is no way to run a publicly funded institution such as education. It is a symptom of what can happen when you do. It all goes back to the Thatcher era reforms which […]
On the face of it there is no reason why government ministers should not disagree and even row. When it becomes public because of covert briefings and midnight phone calls, the media goes into hyper drive. In Twitter speak every piffling detail of who said what to whom, on whose authority and with what intention, becomes a […]
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The Ukraine is beginning to look as if there may be some way out of its dire situation. The new president has a mandate the mob appointed Government in Kiev previously lacked and is already making conciliatory noises. Putin has declared himself willing to enter into a dialogue with Poroshenko and they have already had a […]
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