Opinion: A stench that starts at the very top
Yet more news, as reported in today’s Guardian, of the Labour Government’s complicity in bribes paid by BAE to a Saudi prince to secure a huge arms deal: British investigators were ordered by the...
View ArticleOpinion: My conference awards
Best Fringe meeting: The Liberator/ Lib Dem peace group “War on Terror”, with Craig Murray, former ambassador to Uzbekistan. There were some terrific fringe meetings this year, but this one was...
View ArticlePMQs: Nick tackles Gordon on Afghanistan
International affairs dominated Prime Minister’s Questions today, with both Nick Clegg and David Cameron choosing to put their best statesmanlike foot forward. While the Tory leader led on the ongoing...
View ArticleDoes torture work?
At the end of last month The Washington Post ran a piece from a former US military interrogator who worked in Iraq. It addresses head-on the question of whether torture is needed to fight terrorism: I...
View ArticleLembit: “Time to talk to al-Qaeda”
The BBC reports on Lembit Opik’s plea for the West to speak to al-Qaeda: It is time to talk to al-Qaeda. Having been through this in the past, I know this is right. Declaring war on terror does not...
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How to defeat Al Qaeda
The cover of Bruce Riedel’s The Search for Al Qaeda shows a group of armed men working their way up a hillside overlooking a beautiful valley that stretches away to rolling hills. It captures the...
View ArticleDeraa, not Abbottabad, is where the future is being shaped
The death of Osama Bin Laden in Abbottabad has triggered a wave of speculation about what it may mean for the future of Al-Qaeda and international terrorism. Leafing through the history of other...
View ArticleNick Clegg’s statement on the death of Osama Bin Laden
Nick Clegg has issued a statement on the death of Osama Bin Laden, who was killed in a US operation in Pakistan last night. From the Deputy Prime Minister’s website: There will be a great sense of...
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Clegg: Guardian’s leaked Snowden secrets of “immense interest to people who...
MI5 chief Andrew Parker spoke out yesterday against the leaking of intelligence secrets by Edward Snowden to The Guardian, claiming it seriously endangered national security and had given terrorist...
View ArticleOpinion: A stench that starts at the very top
Yet more news, as reported in today’s Guardian, of the Labour Government’s complicity in bribes paid by BAE to a Saudi prince to secure a huge arms deal: British investigators were ordered by the...
View ArticleOpinion: My conference awards
Best Fringe meeting: The Liberator/ Lib Dem peace group “War on Terror”, with Craig Murray, former ambassador to Uzbekistan. There were some terrific fringe meetings this year, but this one was...
View ArticlePMQs: Nick tackles Gordon on Afghanistan
International affairs dominated Prime Minister’s Questions today, with both Nick Clegg and David Cameron choosing to put their best statesmanlike foot forward. While the Tory leader led on the ongoing...
View ArticleDoes torture work?
At the end of last month The Washington Post ran a piece from a former US military interrogator who worked in Iraq. It addresses head-on the question of whether torture is needed to fight terrorism: I...
View ArticleLembit: “Time to talk to al-Qaeda”
The BBC reports on Lembit Opik’s plea for the West to speak to al-Qaeda: It is time to talk to al-Qaeda. Having been through this in the past, I know this is right. Declaring war on terror does not...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How to defeat Al Qaeda
The cover of Bruce Riedel’s The Search for Al Qaeda shows a group of armed men working their way up a hillside overlooking a beautiful valley that stretches away to rolling hills. It captures the...
View ArticleDeraa, not Abbottabad, is where the future is being shaped
The death of Osama Bin Laden in Abbottabad has triggered a wave of speculation about what it may mean for the future of Al-Qaeda and international terrorism. Leafing through the history of other...
View ArticleNick Clegg’s statement on the death of Osama Bin Laden
Nick Clegg has issued a statement on the death of Osama Bin Laden, who was killed in a US operation in Pakistan last night. From the Deputy Prime Minister’s website: There will be a great sense of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Clegg: Guardian’s leaked Snowden secrets of “immense interest to people who...
MI5 chief Andrew Parker spoke out yesterday against the leaking of intelligence secrets by Edward Snowden to The Guardian, claiming it seriously endangered national security and had given terrorist...
View ArticleOpinion: A stench that starts at the very top
Yet more news, as reported in today’s Guardian, of the Labour Government’s complicity in bribes paid by BAE to a Saudi prince to secure a huge arms deal: British investigators were ordered by the...
View ArticleOpinion: My conference awards
Best Fringe meeting: The Liberator/ Lib Dem peace group “War on Terror”, with Craig Murray, former ambassador to Uzbekistan. There were some terrific fringe meetings this year, but this one was...
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