War on Iraq runs the risk of turning the Middle East into an inexhaustible recruiting ground for anti- western terrorism.

War on Iraq runs the risk of turning the Middle East into an inexhaustible recruiting ground for anti- western terrorism.

Ten Downing Street is a house, not an office. That is its most important characteristic.

Diplomacy is unfashionable in the world of knee-jerk reaction and the dogmatic sound bite on television.

No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome, namely a disarmed Iraq may be feasible without war, for example by allowing more time to the UN inspectors.

Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an immediate and formidable increase of economic strength to a Germany which was already the strongest economic partner in Europe.

Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe.