Tag: Global Affairs

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Jeevun Sandher

How to Reduce Extreme Poverty for Free

Extreme poverty is rising in Africa because African nations are stuck in a debt crisis that we, in the UK, can help end for free. This is because African debt is owed to private lenders and governed under English law. These lenders creditors currently have little incentive to participate in

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Eric Lee

Georgia at a crossroads – and what Britain can do.

The Georgian republic stands at a crossroads.  It will either resume its path towards a liberal, democratic and independent state – or, like Belarus, it will become a client state of Vladimir Putin’s Russia.  Which course it follows depends upon the hundreds of thousands of Georgian citizens demonstrating every day

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Grace Theodoulou

Labour’s Challenge in Managing Future UK Trade Relations

I do not envy Rachel Reeves or any other senior UK government figure tasked with negotiating our future trade deals. Economic growth is the centrepiece of the government’s manifesto and Reeves sees the People’s Republic of China (PRC), the EU and the US as the key players with whom increasing

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Paul Richards

How Should Labour Respond to Elon Musk?

It is relatively easy to dismiss Elon Musk’s increasingly bizarre and frenetic tweeting as the work of one ill-informed and ignorant individual, with a bit too much free time. Afterall, that is what X is now mostly for – the spreading of half-witted nonsense by lazy, credulous, and conspiracy-minded simpletons.

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Patrick Cook

After COP29, Can the UK Be a Global Climate Leader?

Something unusual happened to British people in Baku in November 2024 when asked where they were from. After years of being a little embarrassed by their country, for once, attendees of COP29 from the United Kingdom could feel some pride in answering that question. The UK that had just raised

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Marcus Storm

A Future Secured

What is the Role of a Modern Labour Government in a Dangerous World? The geopolitical situation the new Labour government finds itself steering Britain through in its first year in office is unfamiliar, volatile, and dangerous. British values and interests are tested not just by distant threats but by issues

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