Day: 9 March 2011

David Cameron’s bellicose declarations over Libya are misguided. I suspect they are at variance with the view of the foreign secretary and might account additionally to the problems described in my previous post today. Libya is for all practical purposes in a state of civil war. Civil wars are battles between opposing factions in a […]

There is no denying three things. The first is there is a detectable shift in foreign policy which makes it separate from and more independent of, that of the U.S.. Second, while the thrust is right, the execution has at times during the Libya crisis been ham fisted. The third is that William Hague, in his […]