International relations haven’t moved on from Thucydides. The strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they want.
Justin Trudeau’s government is much less prepared to call what China is doing in Xinjiang a genocide, however.
If Truss is set on rewriting the Integrated Review, she will need bandwidth at the top of govenment to do so effectively, given the awesome scale of the economic challenges facing her.
The Attorney General on judges, Asian values, Spartans, the Good Law Project, Lord Frost – and why the Tories should revive the torch logo.
Most of the action has been over Covid-related divisions. And most of the dissenters are from older intakes.
Three decades on, the regime’s character has not changed – but its tactics have become more sophisticated.
Turn a blind eye, and every one of the other 30 Articles in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights will be breached too.
The Government won the division during yesterday’s consideration of the Trade Bill by 18 votes.
It is not a substitute for justice, but it would be a welcome addition to how the UK responds to the most serious violations.
Its rage crowds out the clear thinking and coherent strategising required to get rid of him.
Though micro-measures aimed at those responsible might work: travel bans, asset seizures, arrest warrants.
So the only question that remains, given this new compromise plan, is: what’s the Government’s objection now?
This rebellion had little in common with most others, but the names of many who oppose the Government now show a certain predictability.
Even as he focuses primarily on Ukraine and Gaza, he should recognise the new axis of authoritarianism forming between China, Russia, Iran and North Korea, with Myanmar as a subsidiary,