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- No end to the controversy - 23/01/2013Brendan Donnelly, Director of the Federal Trust and a former Member of the European Parliament, has commented as follows on Mr Cameron’s speech on Britain’s position in the European Union:...
- Prospects for a referendum on Europe - 15/01/2013Report on discussion at the Federal Union committee The prime minister will give his long-awaited speech on his new Europe policy this coming Friday. In it, he will announce a...
- Federal Union review of 2012 - 05/01/2013The most important outcome of the past 12 months is that the eurozone survived. The world was poised on the edge of a financial precipice at the beginning of last...
Latest Blog Entries
- Proved right on press regulation - 18/03/2013This blog has not expected to be proved right so quickly on press regulation, but that’s what happened today. At the end of last year, when the Leveson commission published...
- Trade war over gambling - 30/01/2013International trade disputes often shine a light on odd behaviour, and the dispute between the United States and the tiny Caribbean island country Antigua and Barbuda is no exception. Originally...
- The wrong conclusion on welfare reform - 24/01/2013In his speech on Europe yesterday, David Cameron observed that Europe, with seven per cent of the world’s population and 25 per cent of world GDP, accounts for 50 per...
terrorism Archive
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Speech, interrupted
Posted on 18/01/2013 | No CommentsThe will he? won’t he? was finally settled, with a date of 18 January in Amsterdam for David Cameron’s speech on Europe. But then reality intervened in the form of a terrorist attack on a gas installation in Algeria which provides rather more pressing duties... -
Geronimo
Posted on 02/08/2011 | No CommentsOsama bin Laden making a video at his compound in Pakistan (picture US federal government) The New Yorker carries a fascinating report on the US Navy Seal operation that killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in May. With its characteristic thoroughness, the New Yorker... -
Statewatching Europe – civil liberties, the state and the European Union (25 June 2011)
Posted on 09/05/2011 | No CommentsEuropean Conference marking Statewatch’s 20th anniversary 25 June 2011 (10.00-17.30) Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL Programme and Registration form: http://www.statewatch.org/conference/conference.pdf Book Online: http://www.statewatch.org/ordering/order.html Institutions £30: (Institutions wanting to book places and needing an invoice please send an e-mail to: office@statewatch.org with: CONFERENCE:... -
The death of Osama Bin Laden
Posted on 05/05/2011 | 1 CommentQuakers are enjoined to see “that of God in everyone”, but it must be hard to see it in the person of Osama Bin Laden. A terrorist and a mass murderer, he was behind the deaths of thousands of innocents: this website can find more... -
Foreign Policy and its Moral Dilemmas: Terrorism and Religious Extremism (4 May 2011)
Posted on 15/03/2011 | No CommentsA discussion series on some of the issues facing today’s foreign policy makers The first meeting will be held on Wednesday 4 May from 12 to 2.30 pm in the Churchill Room, Europe House, 32 Smith Square, London SW1P 3EU. It will consider: Terrorism and... -
The shredding of Lebanon
Posted on 01/08/2006 | No CommentsBy John Roberts Watching yet another calculated bout of obscene violence in the Levant, one of the questions that ought to recur is: what persuades an ordinary young man (or woman) to dress in the armed garb of a martyr and deliberately blow themselves up,... -
11 September and its aftermath
Posted on 24/08/2003 | No CommentsBy Keith Best We have been told on innumerable occasions that the world is very different after September 11. Before the phrase creeps into popular mythology we should examine objectively how the world has changed, if at all, and from the subjective point of view... -
Justice and revenge: the lessons of 11 September
Posted on 12/12/2001 | No CommentsBy Geoffrey Robertson QC The immediate and rightful response of the United States to the atrocity of 11 September was to demand ‘justice’, although that word sounded, in many powerful mouths, like the cry of the lynch mob for summary execution, assassination squads and Osama... -
Global justice or national revenge?
Posted on 01/12/2001 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming The military action in Afghanistan has no end in sight. The world still awaits a clear definition of what the war is for. It is clear that there is no significant Muslim support for the bombing. There was unity in our horror... -
Peace and security are not the same thing
Posted on 12/09/2001 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming It is hard to contain one’s outrage at the terrorist attacks on buildings in New York and Washington DC. But it would be a mistake for the US to rush into a military response. For it is important to distinguish between peace...
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