David Miliband

Despite all the attention on Libya, for understandable reasons, it is not a good test case for the Arab Spring and future relations with the West.  Gaddafi is sui generis and the immediate issue is humanitarian rather than strategic.  Egypt [...]

William Hague’s statement to Parliament today was pretty flat. It didn’t really capture the significance of the Nile Revolution for the future of the Middle East, and perhaps the wider world. Maybe one reason for the flatness is that the [...]