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Nimrod crash is no enigma

"The safety case was a lamentable job from start to finish. It was riddled with errors. It missed the key dangers (in the fuel and fuel storage system, for example)." Benjamin Knight and Stephen Swarbrick were killed on RAF Nimrod XV230 after a ...

From ROBERT FOX, Comment Is Free,  28 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Tony Blair,  Gordon Brown,  Taliban,  Ministry of Defence

Staving off defeat in Afghanistan

The US commander in Kabul, General Stanley McChrystal, has warned – in a document strategically leaked to the Washington Post – that unless he gets significantly more troops the allied effort in Afghanistan faces "likely failure" and defeat within 12 ...

From ROBERT FOX, Comment Is Free,  21 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Gordon Brown,  Bob Woodward,  Hamid Karzai,  Mullah Omar

We've blown the defence budget

How can it be that it takes 20 years to buy a ship, aircraft, or tank? Why does it always seem to cost at least twice what was thought? At the end of the wait, why does it never quite seem to do what it supposed to do? The defence row refuses to lie ...

From ROBERT FOX, Guardian Unlimited,  25 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Land Rover,  Gordon Brown,  Boeing,  Robert Gates

Afghanistan: the game changes again

For Afghanistan the tale of this week, as of many weeks, is one of blood, bombs and ballots. Despite the upsurge in violence in the weeks approaching the first round of elections this Thursday, Afghans have rallied and campaigned for their candidates ...

From ROBERT FOX, Guardian Unlimited,  18 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Al-Qaeda,  Tony Blair,  The Pentagon

2010 is a date with fate for G8

Do you think climate change is really that important an issue? It is so long term and so difficult to market. You just end up getting boring types talking about the see rising. Anything that gives me a water view quicker can't be like the end of the ...

From ROBERT FOX, Oxfam,  11 Jul 2009

G8 gives a boost to small farmers but more is needed

Just to show it's not over 'til it's over - and underline the power of targeted advocacy - the final communiqué on food security from the G8 leaders caught everyone by surprise by boosting the pledge for support to agriculture to US$20 billion. It may ...

From ROBERT FOX, Oxfam,  10 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Al Gore

More progress urgently needed on climate change

Day Two and the focus shifts from the G8 (which in the end met as a group for only several hours) to an ever larger group of world leaders – including all the big producers of green house gases, north and south.   Climate change has received more ...

From ROBERT FOX, Oxfam,  10 Jul 2009
Related Topics: White House,  Barack Obama

G8 journalists let leaders off lightly

We've now seen what they've agreed to and it isn't pretty. On aid and Africa, there's nothing new. And on the economic crisis, well, let's just say the impact on the poor in the global South wasn't top of mind for G8 leaders. When you speak to ...

From ROBERT FOX, Oxfam,  8 Jul 2009

G8 logistics slow down our efforts - but can't stop us!

Pulling together the logistics for a G8 is no simple task. With an ever-growing number of world leaders, hundreds of journalists, and groups working to influence the outcome from around the world, the security, communications, transport and ...

From ROBERT FOX, Oxfam,  8 Jul 2009

The fiddling was fun but the issue is deadly serious

As photo ops go, it doesn’t get much better. A beautiful Rome morning. The ruins of Nero’s palace on the horizon. A backdrop of leaping flames augmented by fire breathers. And the heads of the G8 countries cavorting about in togas, fiddling while ...

From ROBERT FOX, Oxfam,  6 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama

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