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Jemima Shelley

Why the UK Should Proscribe the IRGC

One year ago, the UK and our allies defended Israel from an unprecedented direct attack on the Jewish state by Iran and its terrorist proxies – with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) playing a lead role in choregraphing this onslaught of missiles. But, as well as being an ongoing

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Matthew Lloyd

What We Really Mean When We Speak About Fiscal Rules

The Labour government is realising that the economic structural constraints on British economic policy making are real. Deteriorating global economic circumstances have forced the Treasury to enforce spending cuts to departments in order to remain within the fiscal rules. Bond market shifts, the backlash to taxation plans and the importance

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Dr Sophy Antrobus

Adding Rungs to the (De)Escalation Ladder

In early March 2025 Prime Minister Donald Tusk of Poland called for his country to have access to nuclear weapons and vowed to increase massively the size of its army. Within a fortnight Poland and the Baltic states announced their intention to withdraw from the Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel land

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Sean Bell

Implementing Defence’s Grand Strategy

“You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.”- Anthony Eden   Defence is an insurance policy against an uncertain future. No sane citizen would ever want their nation to go to war, but history suggests that the

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Josh Arnold-Forster

Saving British Steel

Saturday’s emergency legislation demonstrates that this Labour Government is prepared to act decisively when it comes to protecting sovereign industrial capabilities. There are critics both inside and outside Whitehall who have argued that this will undermine the confidence of foreign investors looking at the UK as a potential market but

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Gary Kent

The Trumplications for Labour

The high octane theatrics of recent weeks in Washington have frazzled and terrified the world. It’s all been great TV as Donald Trump revealingly said after kneecapping the Ukrainian President in the Oval Office and in his big bang announcement on tariffs. Will Hutton eloquently nails the fundamental flaws in

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Joe Pollard

Men Against Boys II: Lessons We Should Learn from Adolescence

Similar to ITV’s Mr Bates vs the Post Office, Netflix’s Adolescence has brought to the fore of public consciousness a crisis that has been brewing for some time now – the masculinity crisis and susceptibility of young men to the Manosphere. Whether this can be turned into effective action remains

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Sean Bell

AI – The Dawn of Skynet?

“Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.” – Sybil Sage (New York Times)   The relentless march of technology and the rapid advances in computer processing power

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Progressive Britain

Revolving on the (Alt) Right: Chris Philp Exposed

On the 11th of March, the Conservative Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Philp, posted a graphic on X (formerly known as Twitter) which claims that “48% of London’s social housing is occupied by people who are foreign”, a claim he described as morally wrong. What on the surface seems to be

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