It’s a fitting end to the British general election. We have had thirty years of entrenched majorities – as a dominant party defined the terms of the debate,...
David Steven
David Steven is a senior fellow at the UN Foundation and at New York University, where he founded the Global Partnership to End Violence against Children and the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies, a multi-stakeholder partnership to deliver the SDG targets for preventing all forms of violence, strengthening governance, and promoting justice and inclusion. He was lead author for the ministerial Task Force on Justice for All and senior external adviser for the UN-World Bank flagship study on prevention, Pathways for Peace. He is a former senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and co-author of The Risk Pivot: Great Powers, International Security, and the Energy Revolution (Brookings Institution Press, 2014). In 2001, he helped develop and launch the UK’s network of climate diplomats. David lives in and works from Pisa, Italy.
Greece screwed – Euro next?
On Greece, Martin Wolf is bleak... Yet [despite the bailout] it is hard to believe that Greece can avoid debt restructuring. First, assume, for the moment,...
Audio of BASIC shafting the EU at Copenhagen
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvpHOBAIyps[/youtube]
After the vote: the Tories and Europe
Early today, I pointed out some of the difficulties Europe could cause David Cameron in his early months as PM (should he form either a minority government,...
After the vote: enter Lisbon, stage left
This morning sees early evidence of the difficulties David Cameron will face on Europe, if he ends up leading a minority government or has a very slim...
The bomb that wasn’t (updated)
For a while today, Twitter lit up with speculation about a couple of bombs in Aldgate, East London - rumours that swirled around long after the Metropolitan...
UKTI admits to pimping out British embassies
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjMIFNFE6j8[/youtube] UK Trade and Investment's Mike Gavin has been caught on camera by Heydon Prowse dishing out the...
Gulf of Mexico: the bad, the worse, and the ugliest
From Cumberland Advisors, a sobering analysis of the possible fallout from the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Three bleak scenarios are set out....
After Eyjafjallajökull – time to end NATS secrecy
I had always assumed that NATS – the UK’s air traffic control organisation, which was at the heart of the volcanic ash crisis – would be covered by Freedom of...
After the vote: electoral reform
I have been wondering how the road to reform of the British electoral system might play out. Assume Thursday’s vote gives the Liberal Democrats sufficient...
Baroness Ashton to resign? (updated)
And for the EU's latest foreign policy disaster (and one that reflects enormously badly on Gordon Brown if the story is true), the Telegraph claims that...
UK election debate – the housing crisis
If the BBC leaders’ debate tonight devotes more time to bigotgate than to housing, I am going to dedicate the rest of my days to working for the Corporation’s...
Eurozone crisis – Alistair Darling needs to get off the campaign trail
If you're in any doubt of the seriousness of the Greek sovereign debt crisis, read Mohamed El-Erian in the FT. A banking crisis has fuelled a sovereign debt...
Eyjafjallajökull: all a con, or not. Who knows?
It is often in the aftermath of a crisis that the government definitively loses control of the agenda - it moves on, while the media cements its narrative on...
“Dark Forces” at work in the FCO
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPY5PiGWH7s&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
Popegate – the gays and foreigners did it
Today, the Telegraph plumbs new depths in its vendetta against the FCO over Popegate. Yesterday, after quoting an anonymous threat from the Vatican to cancel...
Popegate – time to downgrade the Holy See?
From the Telegraph, contrasting reactions to Popegate - the FCO memo that ridiculed Pope Benedict XVI. Damian Thompson - "editor of Telegraph Blogs and a...
The Foreign Policy Debate – Live
No advantages to Europe Cameron: “In Europe, but not run by Europe.” Clegg: “I want to lead in the European Union.” Brown: “Never let us be an empty chair...
Six (wonky) things I’ll be looking for in tonight’s foreign policy debate…
Which leader is best able to talk convincingly about the global risks the UK faces? In the past decade, all the key game changers have been international:...
Eyjafjallajökull – finally (we hope) farce
So the UK's airspace is open again after the Civil Aviation Authority issued this rather plaintive statement: The CAA has drawn together many of the world’s...
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