Blog posts tagged "Afghanistan"

June 23, 2011 1:42 pm No Comments

Political Editor Gary Gibbon asks whether elections politics, rather than military might, will dictate a drawback of operations in Afghanistan.

May 24, 2011 6:44 pm 1 Comment

"Like David Cameron, Ed Miliband wants to show affinity with the President who outscores all-comers in British popularity ratings."

November 30, 2010 1:27 pm 1 Comment

The Wikileaks documents contain interesting stuff on Gary McKinnon as well as differing opinions between the UK government and the military over the deployment of troops in Afghanistan, Gary Gibbon writes.

July 20, 2010 7:00 pm 6 Comments

Gary Gibbon blogs on Prime Minister David Cameron's first official trip to the United States and his meeting with President Barack Obama.

1:48 pm 5 Comments

David Cameron has just told PBS radio in Washington that the Megrahi release was “not a BP decision” but “the decision of British ministers” (by which he means Scottish ministers). He has revisited his initial decision to turn down a late request from four US senators to meet up and discuss the Lockerbie bomber’s release [...]

July 19, 2010 7:54 pm 3 Comments

Gary Gibbon looks ahead to tomorrow's white House meeting between Barack Obama and David Cameron.

December 3, 2009 10:45 am 9 Comments

So more than one family has had an extended delay before receiving a letter of condolence from the prime minister and he is in for another round of attacks on this. We should get more details on this soon. Interestingly, when I was talking around yesterday to Brown aides and Labour MPs about the PM’s [...]

November 30, 2009 11:18 am 1 Comment

The Prime Minister has decided to go ahead with formally announcing the long-expected 500 extra troops for Afghanistan today.

November 17, 2009 7:32 pm No Comments

Gary Gibbon blogs on David Miliband's speech on Afghanistan and wonders if it will improve his standing with a certain American Secretary of State...

November 16, 2009 7:30 pm No Comments

Gary Gibbon blogs that in his Lord Mayor's Banquet speech, Gordon Brown will argue that the UK's involvement in Afghanistan is government by a plan.