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Lord Owen to Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron: “(would it not) be a very good thing if the French & British Heads of Government met to discuss their own targeting strategies to their nuclear weapons in Europe & give some guidance to the Russians about (British-French) attitudes to (Russia’s) constant invocation of nuclear weapons being used in Ukraine?”
View Lord Owen’s full question, & Lord Cameron’s response, here: read the
House of Lords: Foreign Secretary’s Questions, 12 March 2024. Full exchange here.
Lord Owen: Can (the Foreign Secretary) assure us that manufacturing in this country of weapons & munitions for Ukraine will be stepped up considerably over the next few weeks & months? Lord Cameron: I think I can give that undertaking…The Government are fully aware that we need to step up production, not just for Ukraine but to… …
Lord Owen addressing u3a meeting, Hungerford, 12 March 2024. Full speech here.
“..my normal optimism about the unlikelihood of nuclear warfare has recently been transformed… Macron & Sunak (should) cross the ‘rubicon’ and announce that they will maximise total military effort and ensure the minimum overlapping of their nuclear targeting of hostile states …. This would be hugely significant: overlap reduces the effectiveness of both countries’ nuclear deterrence.”
Lord Owen discussing a Victims and Prisoners Bill amendment dealing with compensation for victims of infected blood. House of Lords, 26 February 2024.
“…there can be no more ducking and weaving, and no more appeals from the Chancellor to delay it for another year or anything like that. This time, we have to honour it—and we have to do it this year.”
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Extended interview on ‘The News Agents’ podcast of 19 January 2024 (42 mins), plus related Press Release.
Read the associated press release here: Lord Owen Upcoming Election Press Release
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“The writing is on the wall for the two party alternation of power between Labour and the
‘Is the UK right to strike Houthi Rebels in Yemen? Former Foreign Secretary assesses the dilemma’. Interview broadcast on GB News 12 January 2024. View it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D07ZliyGbO4
“…the free navigation of shipping … is an integral part of a civilized world and you can’t allow this to be changed by the actions of countries acting under the influence of Iran..”
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Lord Owen addressing the House of Lords, 21 September 2023. Read the full speech here
“…We should never forget that we are talking about the second invasion of Ukraine. There was a first invasion, in relation to which we performed lamentably. Once again, we must recognise that appeasement never works. Now that we face this situation, we in Europe must not equivocate…
“The spirit is there in this country, the
From ‘Psychological Medicine’, September 2023.
Jean-Paul Selten, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, the Netherlands
“Although certain contemporaneous leaders show signs of hubris and pose a great danger, the hubris syndrome does not yet figure in our classification systems. The purpose of this paper is to examine several aspects of its validity, including clinical description, laboratory study, and exclusion of other disorders.
“…there is sufficient reason …