President Obama and European leaders have hailed this week’s nuclear deal as a momentous agreement that will prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear weapons power. In contrast, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has denounced the deal as a “historic mistake.” Mr. Netanyahu’s concerns have been echoed by a growing chorus of US Members of Congress […]
Margaret Thatcher remarked in her final book, Statecraft, that “during my lifetime most of the problems the world has faced have come, in one fashion or other, from mainland Europe, and the solutions from outside it.” Two years after the Iron Lady passed away her message on continental Europe remains a powerful one. Her warnings […]
President Obama’s doctrine of “leading from behind” has been disastrous for the standing of the world’s superpower, undermining and confusing America’s allies while emboldening the enemies of the free world, from ISIS to Iran. CapX’s editor, Iain Martin, put it well in his latest newsletter, arguing that Barack Obama’s successor “will need a proper foreign […]
“To overcome evil requires the bravest of men.” These were the concluding words written by Margaret Thatcher in her personal hand written account of the Falklands War, just released by the Thatcher Foundation. The 17,000 word document is a powerful recollection of the Iron Lady’s actions as prime minister following Argentina’s invasion of the British […]
With good reason, Cristina Kirchner has earned the sobriquet “the bully of Buenos Aires.” Argentina’s president has dedicated much of her two-term presidency to threatening the 3,000 overwhelmingly British residents of the Falkland Islands while suppressing economic and political freedom back home. It is no coincidence that Mrs. Kirchner expends so much energy menacing the […]
At this week’s G7 Summit in Bavaria, Barack Obama wasted no time in commenting on Britain’s forthcoming EU referendum. The US president declared that “we are very much looking forward to the United Kingdom staying a part of the European Union because we think its influence is positive not just for Europe but also for […]
Foreign policy barely featured in the 2015 UK General Election campaign. But this was an election with important consequences on the world stage, not least for the United States, Britain’s closest friend and ally. It would be fair to say that much of Washington (or at least anyone paying attention over here) breathed a collective […]
Do Americans care about the upcoming British General Election? Does it matter in Boston, Chicago or Los Angeles whether Ed Miliband or David Cameron is in Downing Street, or if Labour forms a coalition government with the SNP, or the Tories get a majority? Judging by the almost complete absence of media coverage on this […]
US policy towards Europe, and strengthening the transatlantic alliance, should be a foreign policy priority for the next President of the United States, who will take office in January 2017. Europe remains the most important source of allies for the United States, and it is in US interests to maintain a strong partnership with individual […]
In his thought-provoking piece for CapX, former Economist editor Bill Emmott wrote that Margaret Thatcher “understood the pro-market case for Britain staying in the EU.” Citing her Bruges speech, Emmott argued that Thatcher believed that Britain’s destiny lay within the European Union. I beg to differ. Having worked with Lady Thatcher in her private office, […]
At the UK Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham last October, the Prime Minister declared that he would be prepared to campaign for a British exit from the EU if it is “not in Britain’s interest to be in the European Union.” If Mr. Cameron is returned to Downing Street this May, and his efforts to […]
In this year’s State of the Union address, two words were notably absent from President Obama’s speech to the nation: economic freedom. The address was littered with calls for more government spending, and the need for the wealthy to pay their “fair share,” but it was notably lacking in the language of free enterprise, entrepreneurship, […]
It is more than a decade since Ronald Reagan passed away in 2004, and nearly two years since the death of Margaret Thatcher in 2013. Both were towering figures who transformed their countries and the world for the better. The Iron Lady and the Gipper were united in a firm belief that decline was not […]
