The Debatable Land (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
It's possible I have posted this before, but William Hague's riff on Tony Blair becoming "President of Europe" also bears another viewing:
ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
William Hague spoke to members of the respected International Institute of Strategic Studies this afternoon on the subject of "preventing a new age of nuclear insecurity": "The certainties of the Cold War, when nuclear weapons were concentrated in the hands...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
The world faces a "new age of insecurity" unless the brakes are put on nuclear proliferation, William Hague warns.
ArmsControlWonk (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
I just got back from the IISS where William Hague, the Shadow Foreign Secretary, gave a speech on Preventing a New Age of Nuclear Insecurity . It is, apparently, exactly two years to the day since he last spoke on this subject to the IISS . Since then, however, the electoral prospects of the Conservative Party have brightened considerably so it had more of a buzz than last time. I confess...
The Cedar Lounge Revolution (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Well, yeah. I know. But it’s sort of a more arresting headline isn’t it than the actual one (for anyone not on the jet of course). And after all, this leads on the front page of an Irish Times inside of which we read William Hague writing: No outside has any right to tell the Irish how [...]
ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
David Cameron on Monday night reflected on this time last year: "William Hague warned me that if he was smart, Gordon would go for a snap election in early October, just after the conferences - and that he would win....
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
When Harriet Harman stood in for Gordon Brown at PMQs a fortnight ago the line that caused the opposite benches to bray the loudest came in response to William Hague's taunt that she should usurp Brown permanently. "There aren't enough airports," she said, "for all the men who would want to flee the country."
Times Online (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
His decision, revealed by Times Online, is the latest in a series of clashes between musicians and EMI’s new owner, Guy Hands, Britain’s best-known venture capitalist, who was the best man at William Hague’s wedding. Sir Mick and his fellow Stones will switch all the albums since Sticky Fingers in 1971 to the rival Universal Music whom the band described as “forward-thinking, creative...
ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | yesterday
... winner with a proven adeptness at diplomacy, foreign policy would be the obvious area for him. William Hague's disposition towards carrying the foreign policy brief into government would of course be the major factor in whether the top job in that area would be open to him, but another factor to consider is that in a Shadow Cabinet desperately lacking in experience of government Trimble's...
The Australian (Free subscription) | yesterday
MICK Jagger has supplemented his state pension by striking a 7.5 million pounds ($15.6 million) deal that will take four decades of the Rolling Stones' catalogue away from his long-time record company EMI.His decision is the latest in a series of clashes between musicians and EMI’s new owner, Guy Hands, Britain’s best-known venture capitalist, who was the best man at William Hague’s wedding....
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
William Hague says a Cameron administration would lead a campaign against a centralised Europe and seek to restore British control over employment and social law
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Labour MP for Knowsley North and Sefton East, who earns £30,000 as an adviser to the bookmakers William Hill.Birkenhead Labour MP Frank Field is a director of Liverpool financial advisers Medicash Health Benefits and pockets up to £50,000 a year from articles and speeches.On the Conservative side, Tatton MP and Shadow Chancellor George Osborne makes after-dinner speeches, including...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
William Hague moves backwards, holding a bag of potatoes. A scrum of TV cameramen surges up the Shettleston Road towards him. “How much have the tatties gone up?” demands a reporter. “Well, that's more a matter for Annabel, obviously,” says Mr Hague inelegantly, glancing sideways at the ample figure of the Scottish Conservative leader, Annabel Goldie. “But it's a lot.”
ConservativeHome (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
... ratchet” of the EU and seek to restore full British control over employment and social law, William Hague, shadow foreign secretary, has told the Financial Times. Hague... says a Cameron administration would seek to scupper the EU’s Lisbon treaty – if it has not already been ratified by Ireland and all other member states – and attempt to renegotiate parts of Britain’s membership...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
... he enjoys political protection and, until 2002, was paid an army pension. Shadow foreign secretary William Hague also welcomed the news of Karadzic's arrest. "It is important that the world shows that no war criminal will ever be safe or indefinitely be able to escape," he said. "Bosnia needs justice and closure and this is an important milestone in this journey. We hope that Ratko...
