Obama's Iran deal and a pattern of incompetence
Obama's limited experience and lack of serious interest in anything other than getting the US out of foreign wars was always going to create some serious shortcomings in US foreign policy
- 25 November 2013
An Iran deal brokered by EU's Catherine Ashton, former apologist for communism, has to be suspect
UPDATED: The lavish praise over the Iran nuclear deal being heaped on EU foreign policy supremo Catherine Ashton, who failed to back the West during the Cold War, is itself a signal we should be deeply worried
- 24 November 2013
Iran crossing the nuclear threshold as Israel is condemned
Iran is passing the point of nuclear no return as we speak. And yet all the international community want is to speak about Israel
- 31 October 2013
The diplomat the whole world ignores
Catherine Ashton heads a wasteful, top-heavy and ineffectual project costing European taxpayers half a billion pounds a year. She's a living metaphor for the EU as a whole
- 2 October 2013
Russia adopts "told you so" stance at Egyptian coup; Obama's America shamed by Africa
Vladimir Putin's Russia feels vindicated by Egyptian coup, Saudi Arabia supports it, while anti-colonial Africa condemns it outright
- 6 July 2013
EU and Egypt: realpolitik vs. human rights
The EU should use its soft power to remind the Egyptian government of its obligations and that it seeks to maintain good relations, but only if it has a responsible partner
- 23 April 2013
Serbia, Kosovo & Brussels: Euro-style Mexican Stand-off
The eternal struggle between Serbs and Albanians over that bleak corner of Europe has merely moved in to a new phase
- 22 April 2013
Riding the tiger
If Europe's leaders gambled that appeasement would buy them a measure of protection from the wrath of Hezbollah they may have tragically miscalculated
- 23 March 2013
Ashton in Wonderland
Catherine Ashton and the rest of Europe are lost down the rabbit hole as the Saudis and Qataris are well placed to gain from the Arab Spring
- 18 January 2013
Israel is under attack. Do you care?
Israel has been under attack this week - who really cares?
- 26 October 2012
Baroness Ashton - steering EU towards blasphemy laws?
The right not to be offended has no place in a democracy. Nor do blasphemy laws
- 19 October 2012
Time for the UK to leave the European Defence Agency
Here are five very good reasons why the UK should withdraw from the EDA
- 21 September 2012
Loony Left: Sweaty, nervous Balls?
The week's madness courtesy of Ed Balls, General T.A.C.O, the Islamic Association of Students, Ansar Dine, UEFA, and the British Justice System
- 6 July 2012
Action on Syria proves why the EU'S foreign policy approach will never work
The watered-down sanctions agreed yesterday in Brussels once again prove that individual European countries should not limit their options to what Brussels wants, because the common denominator approach will never be enough
- 28 February 2012
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