Blog InFacts, 22.07.2019 David H.A. Hannay, miembro de la Cámara de los Lores y ex embajador británico (UE-ONU)No prizes for guessing what the most pressing foreign policy challenge for Britain’s new Prime Minister will be when he enters No 10 on Wednesday. And it will not be Brexit, all consuming though that issue often seems to our...
Boris Johnson es el nuevo primer ministro británico: cuáles son sus desafíos
Columna Infobae, 23.07.2019 Roberto García Moritán, embajador (r) y ex viceministro de RREE argentinoEl próximo primer ministro del Reino Unido, Boris Johnson, deberá dar sentido estratégico al denominado espléndido aislamiento al que ingresará el Reino Unido post Brexit y, a la vez, enfrentar un baño de realidad sobre el peso específico de Londres en el escenario internacional. Hasta ahora la...
If we Brexit, will UK appoint its ambassadors… or Trump?
Blog InFacts, 09.07.2019 David H.A. Hannay, miembro de la Cámara de los Lores y ex embajador británico (EU y ONU)In Classical Greek times it was said that those whom the gods wished to destroy they first made mad. This phenomenon seems to be recurring in the ranks of the Brexiters, both Nigel Farage and his sympathisers on the...
Flattering Trump is no substitute for close EU partners
Blog InFacts, 30.05.2019 David H.A. Hannay, miembro de la Cámara de los Lores y ex embajador británico (UE-ONU)After several days of raking over the ashes of the European Parliament elections and being subjected to the sighting shots in the forthcoming Conservative leadership election, it is perhaps time to focus on a different, but not entirely disconnected, issue:...
May and Corbyn will neglect services sector at our peril
Blog, In Facts,07.05.2019 David H.A. Hannay, miembro de la Cámara de los Lores y ex embajador británico (EU-ONU)Following the negotiations between the government and the Labour party over Brexit is like watching paint dry. Such indications as have emerged from the negotiations relate more to expectation management than to reality, while some are simply ranging shots...
The Looking Glass Splinters
Artículo Strategic-Culture, 08.04.2018 Alastair Crooke, ex diplomático británico y fundador de Conflicts Forum (Beirut)Wherever one looks, it is evident that the post-war Establishment élites are on the backfoot. They maintain a studied panglossian hauteur. But whether it is in Britain, where a PM seems ready to sacrifice her own party’s future on the altar of maintaining...
Art of the deal in diplomacy is not to walk from the table
Blog InFacts, 06.04.2019 David H.A. Hannay, miembro de la Cámara de los Lores y ex embajador británico (UE-ONU)Sitting through seven hours of shameless filibustering in the House of Lords last Thursday, as a gang of ultra-Brexiter Conservatives did their best to wreck the Cooper-Letwin Bill designed to mandate the prime minister to extend the Article 50 negotiating...
It’s the PM not MPs who is guilty of constitutional arson
Blog InFacts, 31.03.2019 David H.A. Hannay, miembro de la Cámara de los Lores y ex embajador británico (UE-ONU)As the government apparently contemplated bringing the Prime Minister’s Brexit deal back to Parliament for a fourth attempt to get a majority for a proposition which has already been rejected three times by substantial majorities, it is surely time...
MPs must listen to 1m marchers and put Brexit to the people
Blog InFacts.org, 24.03.2019 David H.A. Hannay, miembro de la Cámara de los Lores y ex embajador británico (UE-ONU)This was the third march, and by a considerable way the largest . Like the first two, it was totally peaceful and good humoured; it was a family occasion, with children and grandchildren cheerfully darting about and enjoying themselves. Not...
Let’s get the extension we need from EU to rethink Brexit
Blog InFacts, 15.03.2019 David H.A. Hannay, miembro de la Cámara de los Lores y ex embajador británico (EU y ONU)Amidst the sea of uncertainty which surrounds Brexit, this week’s votes in the Commons have given one small piece of certainty. The European Council summit in Brussels on Thursday and Friday next week will decide whether or not...