“British policy fails because we behave too much like an ineffective old Jeeves, even when Bertie Wooster has gone berserk.” By Timothy Garton Ash. Britain’s Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, responded to my article about possible British complicity in the torture of Binyam Mohamed (Thus passim) with a reader’s letter in the Guardian, disputing its accuracy. [...]
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Liberty in Britain is suffering death by a hundred cuts
February 19, 2009 – 11:24 am
I still cannot quite believe this is happening to my country. It feels like a bad dream. But it is happening, and we must stop it. Now. By Timothy Garton Ash For thirty years I have been travelling to unfree places, from East Germany to Burma, and writing about them in the belief that I was [...]
If you don't like what you've seen of Davos Man, wait till you see Nationalist Man get to work.
February 5, 2009 – 10:22 am
By Timothy Garton Ash. Davos Man, ‘the most highly evolved mammal on the planet’, should say ’sorry’ for the economic mess he’s got us into, according to a recent piece by British Conservative MP and journalist, Michael Gove. Conservative party leader, David Cameron. Cameron was a Davos Man last year too. Clearly Mr Gove is calling on his [...]
Europe is failing two life-and-death tests. We must act together, now
January 9, 2009 – 12:44 pm
Weak, divided, incoherent, hypocritical and infuriating – that’s how you hear the EU described privately in Beijing and Washington. The events of this first week of 2009 suggest that its critics are right. By Timothy Garton Ash. Look at the mess we’re in. Europe faces two acute crises that threaten both our interests and our values. [...]