Friendly Cameron and King get mix right for now
By Ian Campbell – The author is a Reuters Breakingviews columnist. The opinions expressed are their own – Just in government and David Cameron’s relationships are in question. Eyebrows have been...
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Britain must adjust to new relationship with India
-Vikas Pota, Author of India Inc: How India’s Top Ten Entrepreneurs Are Winning Globally. The views expressed are his own. - Last week, on his first Prime Ministerial visit to the United States, David...
View ArticleBhopal and Lockerbie on the agenda for Cameron and Singh
-Vikas Pota is author of “India Inc: How India’s Top Ten Entrepreneurs Are Winning Globally”. The views expressed are his own. - With his admission last week that Britain plays second fiddle to...
View ArticleWhat is Cameron offering India?
- Mark Kobayashi-Hillary is the author of several books, including ‘Who Moved my Job?’ and ‘Global Services: Moving to a Level Playing Field’. The opinions expressed are his own. - Prime Minister...
View ArticleBritain’s unkind cuts may help growth sprout
It was billed as a bloodbath, and it is. By slashing public spending by 81 billion pounds over five years, Britain's coalition government is reversing the big increases of previous years. The plan is...
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Tuition row: The beginning of the end for the coalition?
- Mark Kobayashi-Hillary is the author of several books, including ‘Who Moved my Job?’ and ‘Global Services: Moving to a Level Playing Field’. The opinions expressed are his own. – Deputy Prime...
View ArticleTaking power from the powerless
-Clive Stafford Smith is the founder and director of Reprieve. The opinions expressed are his own.- It may be the most mean-spirited thing that David Cameron has yet said since he assumed the mantle of...
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UK deficit cutting – lessons for the US
The news that China is engaged in talks over the building of a rival to the Panama Canal ought to set alarm bells ringing in Washington – and not just because of its obvious geopolitical implications....
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Euro-recession, not rebellion, is what boxes UK in
By Ian Campbell. The author is a Reuters Breakingviews columnist. The opinions expressed are his own. An E.U. protest vote by members of his own party has knocked the UK prime minister. For the moment,...
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Britain’s austerity experiment is faltering
It was the Welsh sage Alan Watkins who remarked that a budget that looked good the day it was delivered to the British Parliament was sure to look terrible a week later, and vice versa. The avalanche...
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England’s inevitable gay union
Earlier this week the British Parliament housed a restrained, sometimes mawkish and at times moving debate on gay marriage – and the bill passed the House of Commons, 400 to 175. The story was not...
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For Russia, Syria is not in the Middle East
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with (clockwise, starting in top left.) U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, British Prime Minister David Cameron, next Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
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When illogical policy seems to work
It’s cynical, manipulative and hypocritical – and it looks like it is going to work. How often do you hear a sentence like this, to describe a government initiative or economic policy? Not often...
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David Cameron takes on the tax havens
There is nothing more likely to spark anger than an unfair tax regime. The American Revolution was founded on it. So the discovery that some of the largest and most successful companies in the world --...
View ArticleCameron, UK hurt by Syria vote fiasco
Rarely has a UK prime minister done so much damage to himself in a single week as David Cameron has with his mishandling of a vote authorising military action against Syria. Cameron may cling onto...
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On Syria, England defects
Thursday’s British House of Commons vote against Britain aiding in a Syrian intervention led me to center on one question: what will happen to the U.S.-UK relationship? Is that alliance now gravely...
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The UK’s paradox of faith
By John Lloyd When David Cameron recently proclaimed in the Church Times -- the organ of the Church of England -- that he was a Christian, that his faith helped guide him through life and work and that...
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Fighting for the future of conservativism
By Nicholas Wapshott Establishment Republicans have been delighted by the victory of Thom Tillis, their favored candidate in last week’s North Carolina primary. After expensive advertising campaigns by...
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How EU politics pushed Merkel to lift Germany’s austerity policies
By Anatole Kaletsky Matteo Renzi, the prime minister of Italy who took the revolving presidency of the European Union this week, seems to be the sort of man that Napoleon was referring to when he...
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Why breaking up Britain could tear apart the EU, too
By Anatole Kaletsky While recent opinion polls have swung slightly back toward the "no" camp, there remains a distinct possibility that Thursday's Scottish referendum will trigger a previously...
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