Archive for August, 2008
Why Gordon Brown’s strategy is all wrong
Earlier this week Gordon Brown returned from vacation and announced that Labour would win the next general election. A much braver, more accurate and more strategic announcement would have been to say that Labour would not win the next election, and would be taking advantage of the next two years to complete its programme and deliver the promises [...]
Back from Armenia, with the Georgian evacuees
I'm just back from eight days in Armenia with international development agency World Vision. Our flight back was overbooked by 40 places, on account of the large number of Britons who fled the conflict in Georgia. I intend to post a full report shortly. The trip was remarkable: a fact-finding tour which transformed my view of former Soviet Asia [...]
