It seems (in Dutch) that America’s Barack Obama isn’t the only Western leader treating friends as enemies and enemies as friends: Gordon Brown will meet Libya’s leader Muammar Kaddafi this Thursday.

What makes this coming meeting even more troubling is that Brown recently talked Scotland into releasing the man responsible for the Lockerbie attack in 1988, Abdel Basset al-Megrahi.

Megrahi was released last month because he is terminally ill. When he arrived in Tripoli, he was welcomed as a hero. A man responsible for the deaths of hundreds, a hero. That’s the kind of country Libya and the kind of man Kaddafi is.

Brown knows, or should know, but doesn’t care.

This planned meeting  is utterly disgraceful. Brown shouldn’t talk to Kaddafi or to any other member of the Libyan regime. They should be isolated.

Embattled British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is busy trying to save his butt. The recent local elections were a terrible blow to the successor of Tony Blair. His party was wiped off the map. He knows that he and his top advisers, and nobody else, are responsible.

Yet, he hangs on to power. Why? Well, that’s what politicians do. In the end, most of them don’t care about their country or their party.| MORE ›

The British economy shrank at its fastest in almost 30 years in the first quarter of 2009, official data showed Friday. The news heaves fresh doubt on government hopes of a quick recovery.

AFP summarizes the findings as follows:| MORE ›

The Bank of England and Prime Minister Gordon Brown are at war with each other.

The Governor of the Bank of England laid bare tensions between Gordon Brown and the Treasury yesterday by warning that Britain could not afford a second economic stimulus in the Budget.| MORE ›

Hazel Blears wrote quite an interesting column for the liberal Guardian newspaper about how she believes Britain’s Labor Party can win next year’s elections.| MORE ›

Germany’s Angela Merkel has informed Britain’s Gordon Brown that she’s not happy with the latter’s plan for a Global New Deal:

GORDON BROWN’S carefully laid plans for a G20 deal on worldwide tax cuts have been scuppered by an eve-of-summit ambush by European leaders.| MORE ›