Day: 17 November 2010

General Petraeus and President Karzai The general is annoyed with the president because Karzai has criticised the level of violence, especially at night, mostly of U.S forces, in the drive to crush the Taliban. For once I think President Karzai is right. The Taliban will never be crushed. Even if they are put out of action […]

David Cameron and Foreign Policy In his Mansion House Speech on Monday evening David Cameron, as is the tradition of this annual Prime Ministerial visit to the City of London, set out his, and therefore the government’s, view of the nature of British foreign policy in future. For the first time since the end of […]

A Royal Wedding Most of the world seems to be rejoicing at the happy news. Whatever their attitude to the institution of monarchy, people love a royal wedding, the stuff of  fairy tales for generations. In fact a marriage of a direct heir to the throne is in the U.K., nowadays, rare. I have seen three;  […]