Wood for the Trees
Blair promotes British role in EU
The terms of Britain’s endless discussion over the EU are generally set by the anti-EU camp, which cooks up false accounts of the cost of membership and makes vague, indignant assertions over the loss of national sovereignty. Though their policies would be disastrous for…
Obama Tries to Rally Europeans
Some people hoped that President Obama’s March speech in Brussels would produce a concrete move to help resolve the crisis in Ukraine. It didn’t, leading to criticism that the speech didn’t do much. One factor was the nature of speeches, which don’t have a direct role…
Sebastian Moffett is a journalist and writer with more than two decades experience working for major international media.