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What a bloody mess! In a self-fulfilling prophecy yesterday, voters gave Britain the hung parliament that was so devoutly to be wished. For preliminary General Election results indicate that none of the three main parties will end up with the outright majority of 326 seats needed to govern alone. Instead, according to BBC projections, the… Read more.
In an event purportedly as historic as the first televised US presidential debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon 50 years ago, the leaders of Britain’s three major parties – Labour’s Gordon Brown, the Conservative’s David Cameron, and the Liberal Democrats’ Nick Clegg – engaged in the country’s first televised election debate in Manchester… Read more.
President Obama has little regard for the purported special relationship between the UK and the US. But his apparent disaffection manifests more in style than in substance. The UK-US special relationship Obama famously basked in Europe’s embrace during his presidential campaign. That the UK felt snubbed looking on is understandable. But even I saw the limitations of all that… Read more.
I remember thinking what an extraordinary snub it was when the White House refused Downing Street’s request to hold a formal press conference between President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Gordon Brown after their first formal meeting in March. The White House claimed that Obama was simply too busy dealing with matters related to the… Read more.
Just months ago, China faced near-universal condemnation for its brutal crackdown on Buddhist monks who took to the streets of Tibet to protest against Chinese rule. Moreover, there was widespread belief that the outrage world leaders expressed would compel many of them to punish China by personally boycotting the Beijing Summer Olympics (or, in some… Read more.
