Articles by Philip Hammond

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THE TYRANNY OF ‘INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE’
Philip Hammond, 3 Apr 2009

Report from a conference that cross-examined the prosecution of presidents by international tribunals. Should sitting heads of state be liable to prosecution by international tribunals? That was the question at the heart of ‘Prosecuting Presidents’, a conference organised by the Royal United Services Institute and the Centre for Foreign Policy Analysis in London last Friday […]

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THE RISE OF THE LAPTOP BOMBARDIER
Philip Hammond, 25 Mar 2009

Journalists and editors did more than simply cheer NATO’s bombing of Belgrade: they wrote the script for it. Do you remember Mark Laity? Ten years ago he was on British television virtually every evening, covering the Kosovo conflict from NATO headquarters in Brussels for the BBC. Described by Robert Fisk as ‘a sheep in sheep’s […]

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