Myanmar Opposition Offers The Military Leaders A National Reconciliation Proposal
Exiled politicians from Myanmar arrived in Brussels to meet with parliamentarians and others in their bid to put pressure on Senior General Than Shwe’s military rule, ahead of expected 2010 elections. The Obama administration has announced a change in policy towards the what is regarded as one of the world’s most repressive and abusive regimes. [...]
A Cry From The Heart
The greatest pain any parent can suffer is to have a child die. This happened to Ismael Khatib, a Palestinian from the Jenin refugee camp. His twelve year old son, Ahmed, shot by Israeli soldiers, was one of many child casualties of conflict, but what happened next was extraordinary. In the Israeli hospital where Ahmed [...]
The Sun Sets On Brown, But Rises On Blair
Harold Wilson once said that “A week is a long time in politics” and time seemed to drag for the Labour party at their annual conference. Privately,labourites are talking about the imminent election in apocalyptic tones and there are muttered conversations where a passer by can hear whispered words like ‘wipeout’, ‘oblivion’ and some are [...]
Countering Extremism
There are a host of academics and consultants working in the field of counter-extremism, but the Quilliam Foundation is different. It was founded by Ed Hussain and Maajid Nawaz, both ex members of the extremist group, Hizb ut-Tahrir. Nawaz was a founding member of HT in Denmark and Pakistan and eventually served four years in [...]
Dan Hannan,The Man With The Plan
The British Conservative party has not only welcomed Dan Hannan MEP back into the fold, after his expulsion in February 2008 by Joseph Daul, but many are embracing his ideas, laid out in his book The Plan: Twelve months to renew Britain. In it Hannon lays out a series of thirty detailed and concrete proposals [...]
Lockerbie: Getting Away With Murder
Lockerbie, 21st December 1988. This small town became a byword for terrorism. On that cold and rainy night a Boeing 747 exploded above the town and the debris rained down, carving craters in the homes and streets and killing even more innocent people.
Barroso: To me, every member state has equal dignity
European Commission President, José Barroso gave a spirited and passionate defense of his ambitions for a second term and on his recently published “Political Guidelines for the Next Commission”, a document demanded by the parliament’s political groups ahead of an expected 16 September vote on his presidency.
