Well who would have guessed it?  Just weeks ago I watched the Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill bristle with honesty and defiance when he said he had released the Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi purely and solely on compassionate grounds.
Nothing more, nothing less. Simple as that.
Ever since that statement, the plot has unravelled quicker than [...]

Is the special relationship between the US and UK going to be stretched to the limit over Lockerbie?
It is expected that this afternoon the Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi will be freed from prison on compassionate grounds as he has terminal prostate cancer. Colonel Gaddafi’s private jet is waiting to take him home.
Kenny Macaskill, the Justice [...]

First it was President Obama who delighted his audience when he undertook a whistle-stop tour. Now Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is embarking on a seven-country tour of Africa.  Why is she going? It couldn’t be so crude to be about crude could it?
The answer is yes. The visit could be construed as the latest [...]

It was a great speech full of powerful oratory. When Obama addressed the Ghanaian parliament on his first trip to Africa over the weekend, his speech was peppered with the concepts of America and Africa working together in a powerful, partnership.
Obama told his audenice that Africans needed to remove the millstone of conflict around their [...]

Never has a President’s words been scrutinised in so much detail, with people looking for a sign or slip about what he is thinking.
Analysts and journalists have poured over his remarks during his brief trip to Canada on NAFTA, Afghanistan, climate change, clean energy and tar sands.