TELEGRAPH BLOGS – NILE GARDNER: Just two months ago, the Special Relationship was written off by its critics as an anachronism, supposedly dying a slow but painful death, hand in hand with British decline. The Labour-dominated House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee effectively declared it to be dead, and recommended the phrase be dropped altogether by the British government. At the same time, the relationship between the White House and Downing Street was strained, with Gordon Brown and Barack Obama barely on speaking terms following the humiliating snub of the PM at the UN General Assembly meeting in New York last year. To cap it all, Hillary Clinton had just sided with Argentina in its call for negotiations over the sovereignty of the Falklands, a huge slap in the face for Britain. Although the alliance remained strong in terms of defence and intelligence cooperation, it had reached its lowest point politically in decades as Brown stepped down. Read on and comment >>> Nile Gardner | Monday, May 17, 2010
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
TELEGRAPH BLOGS – NILE GARDNER: Just two months ago, the Special Relationship was written off by its critics as an anachronism, supposedly dying a slow but painful death, hand in hand with British decline. The Labour-dominated House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee effectively declared it to be dead, and recommended the phrase be dropped altogether by the British government. At the same time, the relationship between the White House and Downing Street was strained, with Gordon Brown and Barack Obama barely on speaking terms following the humiliating snub of the PM at the UN General Assembly meeting in New York last year. To cap it all, Hillary Clinton had just sided with Argentina in its call for negotiations over the sovereignty of the Falklands, a huge slap in the face for Britain. Although the alliance remained strong in terms of defence and intelligence cooperation, it had reached its lowest point politically in decades as Brown stepped down. Read on and comment >>> Nile Gardner | Monday, May 17, 2010
