MSPs mount bid for Iraq prosecutions
Scotland on Sunday reports that a group of SNP MSPs are calling for Tony Blair to stand trial in Scotland over Iraq. It comes after Blair appeared at the Iraq Inquiry.
Brexit & Foreign Policy
Pre-emptive or preventive? Has the mask slipped?
Tony Blair today emphasised the long term implications of Saddam’s retention of power. This is further evidence that it was a preventive war and not preemptive.
Porritt: China facing first real test of climate credibility
Much blame for the collapse of Copenhagen has been aimed at China. But in Prospect Jonathon Porritt argues that China will dominate the green technology market.
War is changing. We must adapt and learn the lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan
The US’s military engine is running hot. The British army’s is nearing meltdown. NATO and its respective populations are war weary. Where next for the army?
Why has The Times got the knives out on DfID?
Following The Times’s coverage of the International Policy Network’s allegations against DfID’s funding of the TUC they once again fuel the aid sceptics’ fire.
The London Conference on Afghanistan must ask whether Karzai is up to scratch
The London conference on Afghanistan this week may be too soon to answer how fit to govern Hamid Karzai is, but it is surely not too early to ask it.
Toronto terror case reveals similar pattern to previous al-Qaeda plots
The ‘Toronto 18’ case is important for what it tells us about radicalisation in Nrth America & how the situation there is a mirror image of the UK a decade ago.
Dannatt off message on Tory Trident plans
Former defence chief General Dannatt, who advises David Cameron and the Conservative front bench, has signalled his opposition to the renewal of Trident.
No Shock Doctrine for Haiti
A new facebook group has been set up to stock The Shock Doctrine in Haiti. But the IMF have only agreed an emergency £100m loan with conditions attached.
Cutting defence budget too far, too fast, will undermine Britain’s security
Analysis of this week’s Royal United Services Institute Report into the implications of the Strategic Defence Review.