It can be done.
The P5+1 talks were, as we blogged, very close to an agreement between the US and Iran. Just not close enough, and we’ll meet again in the third week of November – in a week’s time, that is. It can be...
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Send the envoy
There could only be one song for this post*. I had “Iran follow-up post” on my to-do list, but I wasn’t expecting the follow-up to be basically “dealio!”. The US statement is here, which carefully...
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The FT could not be more wrong about Brazil and the Internet.
The FT is worried about the Internet, and specifically what the Brazilians are up to with it as a result of the Snowden disclosures. Could Brazil's anger at US spying fracture the web? The FT is...
View ArticleI saw the wall Mr Gorbachev tore down.
In October 1989, I was in Berlin for the first time. Small town boy, big city lights. We flew with Pan-Am back then. The airline also doesn’t exist anymore. I caught about the last possible glimpse at...
View ArticleSyrian reservists
Why are hundreds of Syrians turning up in cargo ships between Italy and Greece? It seems that the Syrian government is trying to mobilise its army reserve, and the reservists aren’t keen to go. It’s...
View ArticleDoes Russia want Donetsk, or just to keep the conflict going?
The other day, someone on twitter said it felt like the news was working up to an end-of-season finale, a big finish for the longest running of TV shows. On Thursday, as Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang...
View ArticleGrowth is a driver of migration. Get used to it.
A seriously important blog post. Migration is a problem of success, not failure. As sub-Saharan Africa increasingly rises out of deep poverty, more people can afford to emigrate and are aware that life...
View ArticleWell then.
Looking back at posts from January 2009, I see a mix of hope and serious concern. Country after country was following the US into what has since become known as the Great Recession. It is reckoned by...
View ArticleMeeting the New Year
The Project for a Post-American Century meets an international system with Chinese characteristics. There’s something in this Evan Osnos article in The New Yorker for nearly everyone: [Trump] announced...
View ArticleBad neighbourhoods
From US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s “The West is Winning” speech at the Munich Security Conference — The West is winning. We are collectively winning. We’re doing it together. Let’s start with a...
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