Day: 18 August 2014

Ferguson: American Trauma

August 18, 2014 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Americans must ask themselves three questions. Why was it necessary to shoot an unarmed man in the course of apprehending him for a minor robbery? Why was it necessary to shoot him six times?  And what would they be saying if all this was happening, not in their own country, but Putin’s Russia? In the rest of the […]

Sporting Golds

August 18, 2014 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

After one or two nervous moments, not to mention the debacle  by the overpaid and spoiled footballers whose humiliating performance in Brazil shocked the country, England sport has had a golden summer. Top of the medals table at the Commonwealth Games, Winners of the Ladies Rugby World Cup, triumphant over India in the cricket Test […]

U.K. Foreign Policy: What Is It?

August 18, 2014 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

There are two kinds of foreign policy, proactive and reactive. Proactive is when a country controls its own policy; reactive is when it is tossed about by events. This blog does not need to specify the mess in which the UK now finds itself. There is also within the proactive option the strategic view and the […]