Lord Owen: 'Political leaders should have health checks'
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
All political leaders should have independent health tests and publish the results to prove they are fit to govern according to Lord Owen.
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'Media Services'
Main and Central (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Part 2 In this week's Inside Iraq, Jasim interviews Lord David Owen, former British foreign secretary under PM Blair. They discuss the lessons learned from the Iraqi fiasco. One startling revelation was the fact that Lord Owen accuses Tony...
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Julian Hall's Edinburugh Festival diary
The Independent (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
Lord Owen captivated his Book Festival audience with vignettes from his new book In Sickness and in Power, which shows how world leaders' decisions taken over the past 100 years have been affected by their health and how their illnesses have affected world events. His take on the Shah of Iran gave the most food for thought: "Had I known, as Foreign Secretary, between 1977-79, that he had leukaemia,...
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David Owen
dovegreyreader scribbles (Free subscription) | 12/07/2008
So I'd left it late and indeed I sat right up in the rafters to hear Lord Owen, qualified medical doctor and I could probably tag this under my Doctors Who Write section now I think of it. David Owen...
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Today: 0730 Lisbon Treaty 17 June 08
Radio 4 - Today (Free subscription) | 17/06/2008
Britain's decision on whether to ratify the Lisbon Treaty or not comes to the House of Lords. But should the Lords nod it through now that Ireland has said no? Lord Owen explains the kind of treaty he would like to see and Baroness Ashton on why Britain is voting.
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Lord Owen's heaven on earth
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 16/06/2008
Lord Owen loves the Peloponnese, in south-west Greece, so much he has built a house there.
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Lord Owen on the Lisbon Treaty
Dr Roy's Thoughts (Free subscription) | 15/06/2008
I am not a big fan of the massive bureaucracy that is the EU. Ireland has just defeated a referendum to ratify the Lisbon treaty The EU solution ? Ignore the result. Ratify anyway. Gordon Brown has said this should happen. Lord Owen has other ideas. Let the people of the United Kingdom vote on this latest EU horror. The Lords must stop Gordon Brown bulldozing Lisbon Treaty through By David Owen Last...
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Subs? Subs?
Tim Worstall (Free subscription) | 15/06/2008
Lord Owen call to peers over 42 days Lord Owen, the former foreign secretary, has called on peers to make a last stand to stop Britain endorsing the EU’s Lisbon Treaty, following its rejection by Irish voters. Slightly confusing two issues there, don’t you think?
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Peers in House of Lords should postpone rubber-stamping of Lisbon Treaty - Lord Owen
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 15/06/2008
Lord Owen, the former foreign secretary, has called on peers to make a last stand to stop Britain endorsing the European Union's Lisbon Treaty, following its rejection by Irish voters.
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An Englishman, a Scotsman and an Irishman
Will and Testament (Free subscription) | 03/05/2008
The Englishman is David Owen , now Lord Owen, former Foreign Secretary and co-founder of the Social Democrats. The Scotsman is James Kelma n, widely regarded as one of today's most influential writers. The Irishman is Bernard O'Donoghue, an Oxford don from north Cork originally and an accomplished poet in his own right. I spent most of yesterday morning interviewing all three -- separately, I hasten...
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Alan Watkins: Mr Brown has lost his bearings
The Independent (Free subscription) | 13/04/2008
It was Roy Jenkins who made the comparison between David Owen and the Upas tree, in whose shade everything shrivelled. This was after Lord Owen had succeeded Lord Jenkins as leader of the Social Democrats, long, long ago, in 1983. Mr Gordon Brown has been putting up a similar performance as successor to Mr Tony Blair, after what has turned out to be an aberrant introductory three months.
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Delia's pure gold
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 20/03/2008
SHE has been TV cook Delia Smith's agent for nearly 40 years but Debbie Owen, wife of former Foreign Secretary Lord Owen, was warned by her boss in the late Sixties to steer clear of the then unknown culinary queen.
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Tony Blair and the hubris syndrome
An Englishman's Castle (Free subscription) | 16/03/2008
Lord Owen analyses Tony Blair's psyche - Times Online Lord Owen, the doctor who became foreign secretary, examines Tony Blair’s psyche and reaches worrying conclusions. ....First, his early passion was not politics but performing. Actor-politicians tend to be especially narcissistic...
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Lord Owen diagnoses nasty case of hubris in Tony Blair
Times Online (Free subscription) | 15/03/2008
The doctor has given his verdict. Tony Blair’s vaulting arrogance over Iraq showed an extreme case of hubris, according to Lord Owen, the former foreign secretary and neurology specialist.
