Day: 5 August 2014

The support of this Blog for her courageous move in resigning her ministerial post, over the shockingly ambivalent performance of the Government in the face of the bombardment of Gaza, is both full hearted and heartfelt. The fact that she is resigning from the Foreign Office, where she will have been at the centre of the discussions, underscores […]

The dual signals now coming from Russia are in the classic conflicting form of the diplomatic message that the time has come to talk. On the one hand Russia has used its influence to make the separatists yield up control of the MH17 crash site and has not given any decisive help to separatist fighters […]