Britain can still make a difference in the world
The Foreign Secretary gave his first big speech this morning at Chatham House on Britain’s role in the world. Here is the transcript:
There is a sense in which the British cemetery in Kabul is a monument to the human spirit.
A triumph of hope over experience and as I stood there last Saturday on a chilly and foggy morning I felt the eerie pathos of the place.
It was here in 1842 that the Victorian catastrophist William Elphinstone was driven from his cantonment with a great rabble of camp-followers and it was not far from here that the knives of the Gilzais …read more
Source: CapX
