Sir Kim Darroch’s forced resignation was indicative of subservience rather than a “special relationship” between the US and UK
Sir Kim Darroch’s forced resignation at the hands of Donald Trump and Boris Johnson was the entirely predictable outcome of the utterly malicious leaking of his secret communications to the Foreign Office. I don’t buy for a minute the suggestion that the leaking was done by hackers working for a foreign state. Nor do I […]
It is easy to see parallels with the late 1930s, as truth and integrity are being displaced by cynicism and absurdity
When the Nazis finally invaded Poland in 1939, a number of things happened in terms of truth. Firstly, the invasion was a carefully concealed plan in furtherance of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact between Hitler’s regime and the Soviet communist regime of Stalin. Hitler and Stalin had carefully pre-planned the invasion by the Germans in a manner […]
The imperative of party interest has degraded Britain to a pantomime state
If, like me, you regard the emergence of Boris Johnson as odds-on successor to Theresa May with a certain feeling of numbness, it may be time to examine the path that has led the UK to this nadir in its fortunes. Let’s not mince words. Britain is degrading into a pantomime state. Boris is a […]
Boris Johnson’s ‘managed no deal’ is a myth and he will have to find the stomach to swallow the withdrawal agreement
BBC’s Radio 4 morning news Today programme has regularly interviewed British and EU politicians about the possibility or likelihood that the EU will at the last moment blink and make radical concessions to the UK demands on Brexit. This illusion seems to be based on a stereotypical view that EU summits, particularly fisheries and CAP […]
How can we believe the United States’s claim that Iran attacked Japanese and Norwegian oil tankers in the Straits of Hormuz last week?
Mike Pompeo formally blamed the explosions on two tankers – one Japanese, one Norwegian – in the Straits of Hormuz on the Iranians. Are we to believe him? The US released video footage of what they say was an Iranian naval boat recovering an un-exploded limpet mine from the side of one of the tankers. […]
A Brexit-touting trump is no friend to Ireland or the EU
North America and Europe should see each other as friendly and supportive regional partner economies. Culturally the two regions have common roots and a conflict between them is unthinkable. The North Atlantic regional economic zone is and will remain the dominant economic force in world affairs. That was not always so. Normandy in 1944 was […]