It’s Time for the World to Turn to the United Nations to Broker an...
Article by Lord Owen published in The Huffington Post, 1 August 2014 LONDON – Ceasefires come and go between the Israelis and Palestinians while the death toll mounts. Only the United Nations General...
View ArticlePutin is key to avoiding a new cold war
Article by Lord Owen, published in The Guardian 26 August 2014 If the presidents of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine meet as planned in Minsk tomorrow, it will inevitably recall the time leaders of those...
View ArticleLord Owen interview: Rallying support for the NHS
Interview with Lord Owen, GP Magazine 30 August 2014 Whatever ministers knew about the impact on practices when they decided to withdraw MPIG funding, they could not have known the direct effect on one...
View ArticleLord Owen endorses draft Bill to restore the NHS
Leading public health experts have launched a consultation on a new Bill which aims to reverse the failings of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 and fully restore the National Health Service (NHS) in...
View ArticleLord Owen Interview with CNN: Must Work with Moderate Muslims
Lord Owen in an interview with CNN on 1 September states the need to work with moderate Muslims in efforts to defeat ISIS; endorses Obama’s handling of the crisis and need for assembling an...
View ArticleSpeech by Lord Owen in The House of Lords: Role of Russia in Upholding...
Speech by Lord Owen in The House of Lords, 16 October 2014 My Lords, I have been involved in business in Russia since 1995—mainly with a steel firm in Stary Oskol, some 600 kilometres south of...
View ArticleHubris Syndrome in leadership is an obstacle to the transformation of...
Speech (with video) by Lord Owen at SOL Global Forum, May 2014, Paris How to curb the hubris or narcissism of leaders, without them losing other essential characteristics of leadership has exercised...
View ArticleLord Owen calls for time limits on Prime Ministers’ tenure of office
Prime Ministers should stay in office for no more than ten years or eight years if the Fixed Term Parliament Act is changed from five to four years, according to former Foreign Secretary Lord David...
View ArticleThe Health of the Nation: NHS in Peril
A new book by Lord Owen entitled The Health of the Nation: NHS in Peril will be published on 4 December. It details the damage done by the Health and Social Care Act 2012 and the reasons why the worst...
View ArticleLord Owen warns of the lessons to be learnt from the Hinchingbrooke Hospital...
Article, published in The Guardian 19 January 2015 Hinchingbrooke has been a heavy defeat for an ideological solution that can work well in manufacturing or retailing, but runs into problems in...
View Article‘What makes us Human’ radio interview
On 21 January 2015, Lord Owen featured in the “What makes us Human” series hosted by Jeremy Vine on on BBC Radio 2. To listen to the podcast, please click here: What makes us Human interview
View ArticleLord Owen appears on BBC BOOKtalk to discuss his new book ‘The Health of the...
Watch the 15 minute programme here: BBC BOOKtalk The Health of the Nation: NHS in peril is Lord Owen’s latest book. On its release Lord Owen wrote in the Guardian: “The Health and Social Care Act 2012...
View ArticleLord Owen says the “limited, tinkering reforms” of the EU which David Cameron...
“The situation will be very different to the 1975 UK referendum. BREXIT will by then be forced on to the agenda in a very risky way.” Speech by the Rt Hon Lord Owen to LSE German Symposium on...
View ArticleLord Owen’s House of Lords speech on the report into EU relations with...
“All the members of the committee deserve to be congratulated on the report and on the tone that they have brought to this discussion…. We have to develop a much greater understanding of the complexity...
View ArticlePakistan and the nuclear deterrent
Lord Owen comments: “In the outline agreement reached two days ago in Geneva between Iran and the US, UK, Russia, China, France and Germany, we can see the relevance of Pakistan’s history and its...
View ArticleThe coming election will decide the future of the NHS, and with it, the...
The end of the NHS as we have known and understood it in England will take place before 2020 if whichever party or parties that win the 2015 general election does not change the 2012 NHS legislation...
View ArticleDavid Owen highlights need for parity for Eurozone and non-Eurozone countries...
Letter published in the Guardian, 28 May 2014: On the issue of fiscal convergence, David Cameron must not repeat the mistake of Margaret Thatcher who ignored Nigel Lawson’s twice-repeated warning…....
View ArticleLord Owen looks back in BBC Radio 4 ‘Reflections’ programme.
In ‘Reflections’, historian Peter Hennessy asks senior politicians to reflect on their life and times. In this episode, Lord David Owen discusses the transition from his early days as the son of a...
View ArticleLord Owen hopes cooperation over Caroline Lucas’s NHS Bill could lead to a...
The Campaign for the Reinstatement Bill has, in essence, been adopted in this new Parliament by Caroline Lucas in her Private Member’s NHS Bill which has received a First Reading. The importance of...
View ArticleLabour’s 2015 leadership election: Lord Owen interview on BBC Newsnight
Lord Owen discusses Labour’s 2015 leadership elections and media speculation that it could lead to an SDP-style split in an interview on BBC Newsnight. View the interview, from around 16’50″ in the...
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