Only Certainty is Another General Election
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 7th, 2010 4:32 am by HL
Only Certainty is Another General Election
Peter Riddell, Times of London
Join the debate with David Moyes and Gareth SouthgateTom WhippleWhere am I?Any government formed in the next few days will not be able to command a stable or overall majority in the Commons. So the new Parliament is unlikely to last more than a year or so. A second general election is probable either later this year or in the spring of 2011. Everything else is uncertain. The only way out, a Conservative/Lib Dem coalition, looks highly unlikely because of Tory opposition to electoral reform. As politician after politician said overnight, the public has spoken, but it is not clear what they…
Conservatives Gain But Fail to Take Parliament
Burns & Cowell, NYT
LONDON "” After one of the most passionately contested elections in decades, Britain faced electoral stalemate on Friday and possibly days of wrangling to form a new government despite significant gains by the opposition Conservatives and damaging losses for Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Send photographs documenting your experience of election day across the United Kingdom.Votes were counted on Thursday in London. The Conservatives are hoping to win enough seats to obtain an outright majority. More Photos »"We have a hung…
Greece’s Party Comes to an End
Miranda and Public Safety
Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
“(Law enforcement) interviewed Mr. Shahzad … under the public safety exception to the Miranda rule. … He was eventually … Mirandized and continued talking.” — John Pistole, FBI deputy director, May 4 WASHINGTON — All well and good. But what if Faisal Shahzad, the confessed Times Square bomber, had stopped talking? When you tell someone he has the right to remain silent, there is a distinct possibility that he will remain silent, is there not? And then what? Receive news alerts The authorities deserve full credit for capturing Shahzad within 54 hours. Credit is also due them…
In Afghanistan, the Clock is Ticking
George Will, Washington Post
The ticking clock does not disturb the preternatural serenity that Gen. David Petraeus maintains regarding Afghanistan. Officially, the U.S. Central Command is located here; actually, it is wherever he is, which is never in one place for very long. He is away about 300 days a year, flying to and around his vast area of responsibility, which extends from Egypt to where his towering reputation is hostage to a timetable — Afghanistan.He earned his own chapter in American military history by advocating and presiding over the surge that broke the back of the Iraq insurgency. This was an…
