Its development reputation has been tarnished, and nobody is able to define quite what the UK’s foreign policy actually is.
We need to rethink our foreign policy not in the world we would like, but in the world we actually live in.
We must make sure that the Taliban understand that we will respond with military means to any increased security threat against our citizens
“This did unfold more rapidly than we had anticipated…we gave them every chance to fight for their own future.”
His green light for the German-Russian link to go ahead was an unpardonable security and environmental folly.
We could have degraded Al Qaeda and then left. Or else pursued a proper counter-insurgency plan. Instead, we did neither.
It increasingly seems to have moved away from a strategy to a phrase wheeled out whenever someone wants to justify a policy or idea they’ve had.
The United States has little choice but to recognise that vaccination is the only way out of this Covid-19 nightmare.
Leading by example is all well and good. Impoverishing yourself in order to make a point, not so much.
With 130 million girls out of school before the pandemic hit, urgent and systemic change is needed.
European defence budgets only go so far, and ultimately we need the Anglo-American link.