The Algerian hostage drama has given David Cameron a few extra days to think about his speech on Britain’s relationship with the European Union. Sometime this week he is expected to send a strong signal that unless things changed in…
‘Merry Crisis and a Happy New Fear’ was the ominous graffitti greeting sprayed on a wall in Athens and quoted by Jim Memory of Redcliffe College in Gloucester, at the European Missions Consultation I wrote about last week. Jim was…
1. Introduction – Europe in Crisis Crisis is an overused word. On many occasions journalists in need of a good sounding word for a really bad situation or problem will think for a moment and then say “I know we’ll…
Best wishes, folks, for the new year. Seems like we’ll need them. Because frankly the prospects are not so good - for this year, and for the foreseeable future. And it’s time we faced some issues squarely. That's not an…
Stars, in case you haven’t noticed, are really ‘in’ right now. Usually we talk of stars coming ‘out’ but at Christmas they are really ‘in’–as street decorations, atop Christmas trees, in shop windows and on Christmas cards. Especially those cards…
