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Interesting paper time

I’ve just returned from a study trip to Brussels and Luxembourg, where I saw the EU institutions in all their glory and learned a little about EU military defence (is nuffink for Stateside pundits to get excited about), which accounts … Continue reading

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Mars attacks!

The British Home Office has today published their updated counter-terrorism strategy. As you might expect, there’s more anguish about dirty bombs (terrorists’ home-made nukes), and a possible of correlation of this risk with the incidence of failed states. The possibility … Continue reading

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David Miliband and the death of the ‘war on terror’?

Finally, David Miliband is able to live out the fantasy first enacted by Hugh Grant’s PM telling Billy Bob Thornton’s philandering president where to stick it in Love Actually. Sort of. Considering that Obama is to be inaugurated on Jan … Continue reading

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