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Louis Susman: “all key issues must run through Europe”
Posted on 27/01/2011 | 1 CommentRemarks by Louis Susman, America’s ambassador to the UK, at the European Parliament, 25 January 2011: “I want to stress that the UK needs to remain in the EU. “The US does not want to see Britain’s role in the EU diminished in any way.... -
Assassination in Tucson
Posted on 10/01/2011 | No CommentsCommentators on opposite sides of the political divide have reacted to the shooting of US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in divisive fashion. Those on the left – see Michael Tomasky in the Guardian – object to the combative and aggressive language used on the right, while... -
Whatever happened to the idea of sovereign defence?
Posted on 15/10/2010 | 1 CommentSouverainistes and their friends in the media are very keen on the idea that defence is a preserve of national sovereignty. Britain should take its own decisions and not be told how to defend itself. Brussels, for example, should keep out. So surely the intervention... -
It’s not about the taxpayer
Posted on 09/10/2010 | 1 CommentThe latest report from the Taxpayers’ Alliance on the question of European defence cooperation says rather more about the author than it does about the subject. It is generally understood that there is considerable waste and duplication among the relatively small defence budgets of the... -
Why the fuss about Obama’s anti-British campaign?
Posted on 14/06/2010 | 2 CommentsI was interviewed on the radio yesterday about the so-called Special Relationship, and the possible harm that was being done to it by President Obama’s attacks on BP. “British Petroleum”, he calls it, but it changed its name to BP years ago. And most of... -
The language of priorities
Posted on 05/01/2010 | No CommentsAneurin Bevan famously declared at a Labour party conference that “The language of priorities is the religion of socialism”. This will not be a blog post about socialism – I am going to write about Tony Blair instead – but about priorities. There has been... -
Who should regulate the internet?
Posted on 31/07/2009 | No CommentsThe discussion about the extradition to the United States of Gary McKinnon, the alleged computer hacker, provokes an interesting question of territoriality and extra-territoriality. One of the arguments put forward in his behalf is that he should be tried in the UK, not in America.... -
Extradition to the United States
Posted on 21/07/2009 | No CommentsA debate in the House of Commons last week revisited the issue of the extradition treaty with the United States, which is the cause of controversy every time a difficult case is subjected to it. The request for extradition of the NatWest three in 2006... -
Is there a special relationship?
Posted on 04/03/2009 | 2 CommentsI was on the radio this evening, debating the state of Anglo-American relations with Sunder Katwala of the Fabian Society. We actually agree on a lot, so it was a rather strange debate, trying to find things we disagreed on. When I was asked to... -
The special relationship
Posted on 11/02/2009 | No CommentsAn interesting debate in Westminster Hall yesterday on the United States of America included an interesting exchange of views between two Conservative MPs, Mark Pritchard (who introduced the debate) and Mark Field. (Read the debate here.) Mark Pritchard, who is a fairly mainstream Eurosceptic, extolled...
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