Brexit & Foreign Policy
The urgent need for global, legally-binding arms trade legislation
The UK government must set the right tone as discussions begin this week. They can do so by tightening up their own procedures and pushing for strong and comprehensive multilateral measures as this week’s negotiations begin.
54 years on from Mao’s “hundred flowers speech”, China remains unfree
Liu Xiaobo is undoubtedly one of those flowers that Mao beckoned from the ground and like his predecessors, he too was weeded out. Yet as any gardener is aware, some plants will not be eradicated, writes Kate Allen, director of Amnesty UK.
The Afghan Surge: Where are we now?
Left Foot Forward’s Patrick Bury, a former Captain in the Royal Irish Regiment who served in Sangin, Afghanistan, reports on the latest news out of Afghanistan.
Kenya’s fight against childhood mortality
Jim Dobbin MP, chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Global Action Against Childhood Pneumonia, writes about his visit to Kenya to attend the global roll-out of the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine.
The British left should engage in serious self-reflection over Gaddafi
Colonel Gaddafi made a quite extraordinary speech this afternoon, vowing to stay on and "die a martyr"; here, Seph Brown looks at the British left's questionable relationship with the tyrant.
UN should authorise NATO and Egypt to enforce Libyan ‘No Fly Zone’ to protect civilians
In the wake of reported air attacks on civilian crowds by the Libyan airforce, former Foreign Secretary Lord David Owen has called on the UN Security Council to immediately meet in emergency session and authorise a ‘No Fly Zone’ over Libya.