Gary Gibbon
Dave’s Twenty First Century City gift
Gary Gibbon blogs on Prime Minister David Cameron’s first official trip to the United States and his meeting with President Barack Obama.
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Libyan oil: where does it go?
As BP’s business interests in Libya have come under scrutiny in the United States following the Gulf oil leak, Channel 4 News analysis reveals how more Libyan oil is exported to the US than the UK.
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Gary Gibbon
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A critical distance in the special relationship
President Obama’s recent criticisms of “British Petroleum” have created the critical distance between the US administration and the new British government that is necessary to ensure a “realistic, practical and sensible” relationship between the two countries, blogs Jonathan Rugman
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Security council 'no show' follows rant by Gaddafi
There was one bright spot in the Prime Minister’s day at the UN on Thursday. Colonel Gaddafi did not bother to turn up for the security council meeting. It’s just a coincidence that Libya happens to hold one of the rotating seats on the council at the moment but we all expected it was a…
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Why Central Park said no to Gaddafi's tent
No wonder New Yorkers hate it so much when the UN General Assembly comes to town. I myself have sore feet after I had to make a 12 block detour to get back to my hotel room, all because Colonel Gaddafi was arriving in town and New York’s finest took this as an excuse to…
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Gary Gibbon
Lockerbie – a tale of two briefings
A White House “readout” of the phone call between President Obama and the Prime Minister reveals something that seems to have slipped off the No. 10 version of events.
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Gary Gibbon
Scottish letters reveal Libyan pressure?
The correspondence on Lockerbie supports the story that the government U-turned on whether al-Megrahi should be excluded from a prisoner transfer agreement or not. The letters have already been selectively leaked – they’re now all there on the Foreign and Commonwealth, Ministry of Justice and Scottish government websites. More interesting perhaps is something about to…