Following my discussion with the High representative of Palestine in the UK and the Emirates Ambassador the post graduate school of law is now well on its way to completion and hopefully will take students from Palestine later this year. I think they are being a little optimistic about starting this year but enthusiasm counts…
The reception on the third birthday of this Blog was a well attended and interesting occasion as Lord Norton points out below. One discussion I had led me to think that a number of us (the Lords) would benefit from a half day on refining our blogging techniques. For example, I have never really understood…
For those who are interested in the arguments for intervention (not just military) and the history of intervention back to the 19th century British campaign to end the trans Atlantic slave trade look at my article written for the Henry Jackson Society: http://www.henryjacksonsociety.org/cms/harriercollectionitems/The+Right+Side+of+History.pdf
Apart from drawing considerable satisfaction from the thoughtful exchanges below on nuclear power and the Japanese Tsunami I am struck by how different (and better) the debate is then it would have been some years ago. The people and the media in Japan are handling this much better than the media here where even the…
The tragic events in Japan reveal a remarkably stoic people who are much closer to dramatic natural disasters then I hope we shall ever be but I hope the nuclear issue does not lead to another attempt to stop the development of nuclear power in the UK. If we had a smaller world population it might be…
