Our strong sense is that our competitors – we cite France particularly – are more focussed on choosing nominees who might be expected to advance national interests on the world stage.
I love experts. I used to be one. But it’s in their nature, singularly and collectively, to lay it on thick.
The NHS tells us that each year 78,000 people die from smoking in the UK. But we don’t ban smoking.
The Integrated Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy Review gives us a chance to do better by focusing on the pandemics threat.
Though it has long since been overshadowed by the death of Her Majesty and the progress of the war in Ukraine, the Conservative leadership contest was horrible. It was too long, too combative, and too expensive.