They say that the chances of a no-deal Brexit are rising. If there is one thing that these Brexit negotiations show it is the fundamental…
On July 27, the White House said that President Trump would receive President Putin in Washington early in 2019, and that Trump would later travel…
The fall of the Berlin Wall and the whole authoritarian Soviet system in 1989 heralded what we all thought was a victory for liberal democracy….
This letter was published in the Financial Times on 24 July 2018 Your editorial about privacy and press freedom (A rush to judgment over privacy…
The papers have been reporting on the rise in crime rates across the UK. Burglaries, knife crimes, stalking, sexual offences – all are on the…
It has been de rigueur in certain middle class circles to complain about the baleful effect of political parties in government, but nobody appears to…
This article first appeared on the Friends of Europe web site.
When cracks appear, they can either be fixed, or they can be papered over for a while, or they can start to spread dangerously. The…
The June 23 2016 referendum vote, when the British people decided to leave the European Union (EU) created a lot of confusion and anger on…
This article (Europe’s frivolous anti-American populism – German) was published on achgut.com
“There are two kinds of European nations. There are small nations and there are countries that have not yet realised they are small nations.” Thus,…
In international relations, there are sometimes rare moments of opportunity that need to be grasped. This particular sequence of mid-July 2018 is one. A NATO…