Tag: Global Affairs

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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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Razgar Alani

Woman, Life, Freedom: The Fight for a Modern Iran

Millions in the Middle East live on edge as the region teeters on the brink of all-out war. One actor is primarily responsible for the looming destruction and suffering of ordinary people who desire peace and prosperity: the leadership of the Islamic Republic of Iran. For nearly half a century,

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Florian Ranft and Michèle Auga

Rebuilding Bridges: Starmer and Scholz’s Declaration

In view of the return of war in Europe and the unprecedented global challenges, the Joint Declaration by Prime Minister Starmer and Chancellor Scholz is promising. Europe – not just the EU – needs to be strengthened as a global player, and German-British relations in particular could become an important

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