EN / Feel-good foreign policies at FCO

The UK foreign policies are confusing. On the day when Foreign Secretary William Hague was visiting Brazil hailing the growing importance of the continent in general, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Henry Bellingham MP did not mention Latin America at all when highlighting the areas where the UK wants to play a more active role in 2012.

EN / Day at the Lords’

The House of Lords, not the cricket ground, of course! Somehow, the game still seems to be more mysterious to me than the ceremony of politics between these life peers in the South wing of Westminster Palace.

Unlike the House of Commons, I have often overlooked the events in the House of Lords and, despite being an Anglophile, never really got it beyond: “It’s just like the Polish Senate but people there are not elected but usually appointed for a job for life, don’t represent constituents but review what is going on in the HoC and the Government instead,” to put it simplistically.