Politics

Marc Wadsworth

Scared: Boris JohnsonEmbattled London Mayor Boris Johnson has chickened out of an interview with The-Latest. His cowardly decision comes at a time when he needs all the friends he can get.

Liberal Democrat party leader Nick Clegg has accused British Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown of  "complacency" in dealing with what he has described as the "mental health crisis" in the National Health Service.

Dear Ken,

Ousted Mayor Ken LivingstoneAs a former friend, I am writing to say farewell comrade. You put up a spirited fight to win a third term as Mayor of London, but I could tell you were tired and your heart wasn't really in it this time. Ironically, you faced a political opponent more maverick and populist than you - and a lot younger.

Fu Ying, China's ambassador to London

In the morning of April 6, looking at the snowflakes falling outside the window, I could not but wonder what the torch relay would be like. About eight hours later, when the torch finally struggled through the route, Olympic gold medalist Dame Kelly Holmes ran up to light the Olympic cauldron at the O2 dome, and 4,000 spectators cheered, obviously with a sense of relief.

Most white working class Britons feel nobody speaks for people like them, according to a BBC survey whose results are being shown in a programme tonight. For instance, few of them are MPs and other national leaders.

Cecilia Anesi

Political commentators could be forgiven for thinking that Italy had followed Spain in striking a blow for European independence from American's superpower imperialism when they withdrew their troops from Iraq at the end of 2006. Yet in Rome, even the centre-left coalition that defeated Washington's friend Silvio Berlusconi, has stubbornly kept Italy's military in Afghanistan. It could cost them the election in May.

Chris Gelken - Online Columnist

America’s most senior law enforcement official was extremely evasive under a barrage of tough questions from a US Senate committee investigating charges that the United States is guilty of war crimes.