The Euro non-Revolution
The Euro non-revolution By Tom Arbuthnott of The Foreign Policy Centre In eight months' time, the European economy will totally self-destruct, the stock market will crash and the cumulative savings…
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Where battle will be joined in EU vote
An amalgamation of recent statistics suggests that the type of Briton most likely to be strongly opposed to the EU is a woman in her later fifties or early sixties.…
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A question of credibility
When Gordon Brown moves up to the dispatch box on Monday week to deliver his "No, Not Yet" message on the euro he will find it very hard to persuade…
Travel Advice Launch Event Speech
Rachel Briggs Travel Advice Launch Event Speech Introduction The matter of FCO travel advice has never been more important. The appetite for overseas travel continues to grow – there were…
Lessons from the East
Issue 05, Summer 2001 Drugs policy in the western world stands out as a story of continuing, almost unmitigated, failure. While other problems – from unemployment to youth crime –…
The Future of Democracy in Europe: Five Heretical Proposals
Issue 05, Summer 2001 The European project was always about more than coal and steel. Even when the ink was fresh on the Schuman plan, it was the dream of…
Global Britons Manchester Seminar
Mark Leonard: This is the first in a series of seminars which is going to form the backbone of the Global Britons Programme, a year long research project which aims…
Review – Dangerous Data by Adam Lury and Simon Gibson
DANGEROUS DATA by lury.gibson (Adam Lury and Simon Gibson) (Bantam Press, 2001, pb, £9.99, ISBN 0-593-04741-9) Arthur C. Dogg is a new type of detective - a data detective. He…
What Should We Really Expect from Big Business?
Successful corporations have changed from ‘financially viable producers and purveyors of goods and services’ into vast profit-needing institutions that, almost coincidently, deliver goods and services. Extraordinary facts about this historic…
Global Thinking Review – Winter 2001
GEORGE ORWELL: ORWELL AND POLITICS (Penguin Classics, 2001, pb, £7.99, ISBN- 0-141-18518-X) Since his premature death from tuberculosis nearly fifty years ago, George Orwell has become an archetype, a universal…