Tag: Global Affairs

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Alice Macdonald MP

Financing a New Future for International Development

The Gleneagles Summit 2005, Eriko Sugita / Reuters 20 years ago, the words of Nelson Mandela rang out in Trafalgar Square. He called on the world to Make Poverty History stating that ‘as long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest’.

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Michael Rubin

It’s Time for Netanyahu To Go

The Netanyahu government has been a disaster – for Israel and its security, for the Palestinians, and for the prospects of a wider regional peace. It is time for it to go and for Israel to have the new leadership its people want and deserve. The 7 October atrocities –

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Gary Kent

Kurdish Lessons for Labour

The small town of Ranya in Iraqi Kurdistan once loomed large in British foreign policy and now matters a great deal to Labour’s migration policy. The Kurdish uprising against Saddam Hussein’s genocidal dictatorship began there in 1991 and was nearly crushed before John Major pioneered a safe haven over the

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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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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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Roger Liddle

The Increasingly Complex Fight for Peace in Ukraine

Keir Starmer’s commitment to send British troops to Ukraine is possibly the most consequential decision he has made as Prime Minister so far. Labour List niggled that it had won a mixed reception at this weeks meeting of European leaders in Paris. With impending elections for the German Bundestag and

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Mike Clancy

What’s Good for Growth Is Good for Britain

If this government wants us to know one thing about its objectives at the moment, it is that economic growth is their priority. From infrastructure investment, to planning reform and even pensions, growth is the thread running through all recent government announcements. Whether or not you agree with every decision,

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Jeevun Sandher

Democracy is in Danger (But We Can Rescue It)

Our democracy, like those across the world, is in danger. Citizens here are losing faith in democracy as they cannot earn enough to live, and we are also threatened by Putin’s aggression in Europe. Dealing with both is the only way to save democracy. We can only protect democracy by

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