A glance at the daily headlines offers negative confirmation of the urgent need for long-term thinking about security. North Korea and Darfur do occasionally dislodge Iraq, Iran and the
A glance at the daily headlines offers negative confirmation of the urgent need for long-term thinking about security. North Korea and Darfur do occasionally dislodge Iraq, Iran and the
Paul Wolfowitz's doctrines are a summa of numerous failed political dogmas of the 20th century. His notion of politics was essentially Bolshevik, but less democratic in practice than
John Jackson (London, Mishcon de Reya): In the June issue of Prospect, just out, Robert Hazell of the Constitution Unit, in an essay (with restricted web access) titled Gordon’s
Guy Aitchion (London, OK) As Brown struggles to pin down an elusive ‘Britishness’ an interesting ippr document sheds light on the issue of national identity in modern Britain (download it
It's an internet legend that if you put a frog in a pot of boiling water, he'll jump out, but if you put him in cold
"And the twelve points go to Serbia". The announcement of the representative of Bosnian television at the Eurovision song contest in Helsinki on 12 May 2007 may have
Jon Bright (London, OK): How will the internet affect politics? Jonathan Freedland gives his prognosis in the Guardian today taking up the theme if not the wide monitoring of Bill
Sometimes, for brief moments only, it seems advantageous to live in a place where fear and ignorance can indiscriminately take the upper hand.
Seems two old friends in Los Angeles
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): Robin Butler complains again about the Blair government’s poor, informal decision making! Butler was the Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service when Blair
The extent of the United States predicament across the Middle East, and the policies being introduced to meet it, is increasing the risk of a crisis with Iran. The nature
The French daily Le Monde never does it like any other newspaper. A small item on its back page on 23 May 2007 announced discreetly to its million readers that
