No ‘deal in the desert’, but the Prime Minister reports EU leaders are showing “a real determination to find a way through”.
The use of live ammunition is the result of decisions either made or approved by the defence minister.
The hard truth is that for the country’s politicians what European governments think is of secondary importance. What counts is Congress and Trump.
Iran’s demonstrators are asking for reform, and all democrats should openly support their goals.
It won’t be easy but regional powers can make it happen if they make the right choices.
A dogmatic, utopian insistence on imposing the American model wholesale often runs contrary to establishing stability, growth, and the rule of law.
I can’t find a single example of this policy successfully moderating such an organisation, but plenty of it distorting Western policy.
Reports of the Church’s decline ignore worldwide growth, even in such apparently unlikely places as Iran, and throughout much of the Muslim-majority world.
Quitting it would mean more scope for trade deals and lower prices. Modern countries don’t need such unions to do business.
In large part, it has taken the post-truth idea up because of its own electoral weakness – and the feeling that it may not be just temporary.
Quality stonewalling from the Defence Secretary on Marr as he treads a middle way between the Foreign Secretary’s view and Downing Street’s reproof.
The simple fact is that, despite its lofty goals, it repeatedly fails to live up to the values and standards it was set up to defend.