On the EU and David Cameron’s Base
David Cameron’s campaign to prevent the election of Jean-Claude Juncker as head of the European Commission was a piece of sound and fury, writes International Affairs analyst Jonathan Manthorpe. His defeat would seem, on the surface, conclusive — except when considered as a work of domestic politicking. An excerpt of Manthorpe’s column: The humiliating defeat of British Prime Minister David Cameron in the election for the European Union’s top bureaucrat is probably the best thing that could have happened to him. Cameron took a calculated risk in the fallout from May’s elections for members of the European Parliament, in which right wing