Foreign

Opine

[oh-pahyn]

–vb/ to hold or express an opinion.

[Origin: 1575–85; < L opīnārī to think, deem]

 

 

 

7 August 08

China in their hands

 

Victory for liberty in China will not look quite as we had imagined.

13 August 08

Georgia on my mind

 

The news of a Russian ceasefire and a peace agreement, however shaky, for troubled Georgia is thoroughly good news.

 

Neither side is blameless in this messy muddle, but there is no doubt that the Russians have shown flagrant disregard for their responsibilities as regional superpower.

25 August, 2008

Dealing with the Devil

30 August, 2008

Ukraine if you want to

 

Foreign Secretary David Miliband made two things clear on his visit to Ukraine last week.

3 October, 2008

Palin to insignificance

 

Last night saw the first and, thankfully for the Republicans, only vice presidential debate of this year’s US Presidential Election. Joe Biden reined in all of his obvious superiority and yet won this debate by a clear margin.

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15 October, 2008

A bad deal worse

 

Reports from Zimbabwe indicate that Robert Mugabe has got bored of keeping his promises and begun handing out high-profile cabinet posts to Zanu-PF allies.

He faces an old -school fighter who needs his party as much as it needs him, despite the fact that neither like each other very much. 

3 November, 2008

Obama good

 

Anyone with a nerd-like affection for The West Wing will have seen this presidential race before.

 

The young, charismatic, inspirational, nowhere candidate is forged in a bruising primary. 

3 November, 2008

Fear itself

 

Incredibly, after eight years of Rove Republicanism and George Bush projecting an air of pant-less idiocy across the world stage, tomorrow’s presidential election could potentially be a frighteningly close race.

7 January, 2009

Endgame. Again.

 

Whoever first coined the phrase, it is said that the definition of insanity is doing the same things over and over again, expecting a different result.

The Israelis seem intent on proving that.