Month: February 2015

What IS wants, in a picture As if it were not enough that the EU’s two principal member states – in the form of their leaders, François Hollande and Angela Merkel – spent much of the last few weeks happily handing to Vladimir Putin parts of another European country on a plate in return for… Continue reading If you want to know how our foreign policy has gone badly wrong, you need ask yourself only why IS now sits on the shores of the Mediterranean

While Labour has not had a brilliant last couple of weeks in the election campaign – its barely-coherent policy on the NHS being a case in point – the jury is still emphatically out on who will win, thanks largely to this parliament’s highly unusual electoral arithmetic. With things so tight in the polls, a… Continue reading A little dignity, a little pride