A Conservative Deal with Nick Clegg Would be Disastrous

By Nile Gardiner May 7, 2010

As Gordon Brown clings grimly on to power, Conservative leader David Cameron has reached out to the Liberal Democrats offering to work with them in forming a new government. Whether ...

Gordon Brown Must Not Cling on to Power

By Nile Gardiner May 7, 2010

With about 90 percent of votes counted in the U.K. general election, the Conservative Party has emerged as the biggest party, with over 300 seats projected, but short of an ...

Five Reasons the UK General Election Matters to the United States

By Nile Gardiner May 5, 2010

British voters go to the polls on Thursday in the tightest political race in the UK in a generation. Several opinion polls have indicated the strong possibility of a hung ...

Nick Clegg: Weak-kneed and Clueless on National Security

By Nile Gardiner May 4, 2010

UK Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg, increasingly a darling of American liberals, has come under heavy fire today from three leading former defence, intelligence and counter-terror chiefs. The attack in ...

Five Reasons Why American Conservatives Should be Worried about Nick Clegg

By Nile Gardiner April 21, 2010

Thursday night will see the second of three U.S.-style televised debates between the leading candidates in the upcoming British general election: Gordon Brown, David Cameron, and Nick Clegg. The focus ...

The Future of the Special Relationship

By Nile Gardiner April 6, 2010

There will be much at stake when the UK finally goes to the polls on May 6 after months of phony war between the two leading parties: the future course ...

Economic Freedom Declines in Britain

By Nile Gardiner January 29, 2010

The 2010 Index of Economic Freedom rankings have just been released, and the results are far from flattering for the United Kingdom. The U.K., the world’s sixth-biggest economy and home ...

Time for a British Surge in Afghanistan

By Nile Gardiner October 7, 2009

The New York Times has a report today on the intense British debate over troop levels in Afghanistan. The U.K. has over 9,000 soldiers serving in the NATO-led International Security ...

The Great Irish Surrender

By Nile Gardiner October 5, 2009

The Irish ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon will pave the way for the biggest erosion of national sovereignty in Europe since the Second World War. After rejecting the Treaty ...

What Sarkozy Really Thinks of Obama

By Nile Gardiner April 16, 2009

Further proof that President Obama is not quite as popular across the Atlantic as he thinks. The Times has an amusing piece about Nicolas Sarkozy taking swipes at ...