This week, as we remember the sixty million people who gave their lives in the two World Wars of the last century, it is important to take a moment to pause and to think about how far Europe has come since 1945. As I commented in my blog this time ...
Continuing debates on both sides of the Atlantic show just how the world is separating into two communities. Those mostly in the Eastern part of the globe, other than Japan, have, like China, expanding economies, high growth rates, low interest rates and are heavily investing in infrastructure. In contrast, ...
Earlier this week, I gave a talk at the opening day of a week-long conference at the Moscow School of Political Studies, held just outside Moscow at Golitsino. This was the fifth time that I have been invited to do so since the year 2000. The audience was made up ...
In an interesting comment in The Times this week, David Wighton commented that "Decades of underinvestment have left large parts of Britain's physical infrastructure in a woeful state that seriously undermines our international competitiveness. Our airports and railways are badly overstretched and we lag behind many rival countries in broadband". ...
The visit of President Obama has been the highlight for the UK this week, illustrating the vital nature of the UK-US relationship to be a rock-solid bastion for promoting our jointly shared values and beliefs. As President Obama said in his historic speech to the Houses of Parliament on Wednesday, ...
This week, newspapers have been filled with the Greek debt crisis and the UK's contribution of £4.3 billion to the bailout of Portugal. The Daily Express has been quick to say that it is "utterly wrong" that British money is being "squandered propping up a failing Eurozone". But would it ...
Moves have been underway this week to appoint a new Director of Strategy in Downing Street. This follows the decision taken by the Prime Minister last November to close down the Downing Street strategy unit. Part of the role of this new Director of Strategy will be to shape a ...
Over the last few days I was in the US, meeting with leading US policy-makers and getting an insight into the current political mood across the Atlantic. I visited both Washington and San Francisco for meetings in my role as Chairman of the Transatlantic Policy Network (TPN) and a Member ...
In recent days, discussion of the UK's potential role in an increasingly multi-polar world has appeared in a number of national papers, with commentators beginning to look beyond our current financial and economic predicament towards an uncertain future ahead.
My attention has been drawn in particular to an article by Philip ...
