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Chief Emeka Anyaoku was the third Commonwealth Secretary-General, serving from 1990 to 2000 (after a career which included many years as Shridath Ramphal’s deputy as well as Nigeria’s foreign minister). In this article from 2011 he reflected on both the challenges and the achievements of the Commonwealth, with a clear emphasis on the importance of fundamental principles and values. ['From the Archives' curated by Alex May and Paul Flather]
One of the key tasks of the forthcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Samoa will be to choose a new Secretary-General in succession to Baroness Scotland. In this article from 2017 veteran Commonwealth observer Mark Robinson compared the practices of the Commonwealth and the United Nations, and argued for greater clarity and transparency in the Commonwealth’s rules.
A hundred years ago the UK Labour Party formed its first, minority and short-lived, government under Ramsay MacDonald. Three months in, Percy Horsfall, a businessman with English Electric and Marconi, provided an assessment of MacDonald’s domestic and foreign policies, suggesting that ‘the voice of reason and of moderation has so far prevailed’ while highlighting numerous difficult challenges the government would have to face.