In an exclusive interview with The Third Estate, Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg sets out his vision for change It can’t be easy, being the leader of Britain’s third major political party. Caught between a disintegrating New Labour and a resurgent Conservative Party waiting for its coronation, convincing the British public that what you have [...]
America will not prove its openness through hosting the Olympics, but by engaging in diplomacy It must be difficult for Barack Obama to hear the words ‘no you can’t’, but that was exactly what he had to face today as the IOC chose Rio de Janeiro to host the 2016 Olympics over his hometown of [...]
Guest post by Andy Yee “If we are serious about the ambition of a nuclear-free world we will need statesmanship, not brinkmanship,” Gordon Brown said today as he told the UN General Assembly that Britain was preparing to cut its nuclear arsenal and warned Iran and North Korea of further sanctions. North Korea’s missile launch [...]
Hillary Clinton announced today that if Iran succeeds in developing nuclear weapons, America could look at arming its allies in the region to defend against the threat. “We want Iran to calculate what I think is a fair assessment: that if the United States extends a defence umbrella over the region, if we do even [...]
