Today I have had the honour of witnessing the lighting of the Olympic Torch for the London 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games beside the Temple of Herra, Olympia, Greece. On 22 April, 2011 I stood on exactly the same spot, not in a suit but in a t-shirt and carrying a twenty kilo rucksack as…
David Cameron’s blunt but essential message to the United Nations yesterday that it must not just be “united in condemnation, but united in action” and continued,“You can sign every human rights declaration in the world. But if you stand by and watch people being slaughtered in their own country, when you could act, then what…
Last week the Olympic Delivery Authority may have been able to proudly declare that construction work was 88% complete, but in one crucial area work has barely started—The Olympic Truce. The Olympic Truce is a Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly which requires all signatories to “pursue initiatives for peace and reconciliation in the…
The Acropolis and the Parthenon are to Athens and the Greeks what Nelson’s Column and Big Ben are to London and to the British. They are more than monuments; they are statements of what it means to be Greek. So, how might we react if a Greek diplomat hired a firm of dodgy builders to…
The clamour for immediate military action against the regime of Muammar al-Qadhafi should be reflected upon at greater length and the tentative truce in Tripoli seized upon.
