David Miliband: “There are well founded reports of effective war crimes that are being committed in the shelling of civilian areas.”

In terms of the politics, there`s something quite striking going on, which is that Europe has been bitterly divided over refugee issues over the last five years.

Each day brings a new low. And that U.N. figure that United Nations figure of one child every second becoming a refugee from Ukraine is really haunting.

a political settlement is not one part of a multipronged strategy in a counterinsurgency; it is the overarching framework within which everything else fits and in the service of which everything else operates.

the monarchy is something that has been outside politics, and that has given a source of continuity.