The Commonwealth Conversation

Will the average person walking down a street have any idea what a CHOGM is? My guess is no.

In interviews with the Royal Commonwealth Society two former Commonwealth leaders say that we need to re-engage with Zimbabwe.

A number of member countries are not measuring up to the Commonwealth principles. The regime in The Gambia, for instance, is extremely harsh with little attention paid to human rights and no freedom of expression.

It used to be that travelling through the Commonwealth was quick and easy. Now when I travel to the UK, people from countries with no historical ties speed through quicker than Canadians and Australians who share the Queen as head of state!

Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, Morgan Tsvangirai, speaks at The Royal Commonwealth Society. How can the Commonwealth help his country?

Thirty years after the Lusaka conference, Trevor Grundy has written that the Commonwealth Conversation is trying to revitalise an organisation which saw its heyday in the seventies and eighties.