Category: World News

The United Kingdom’s coastal communities were among the most disadvantaged areas in the country even before the outbreak of COVID-19. They have been hit especially hard by the pandemic. A recent report found that coastal towns and formerly industrial areas had seen

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The UK Internal Market Bill entered the House of Commons for its 2nd Reading last week and passed comfortably with a majority of 77. The Bill was labelled by some as an intercontinental breaker of treaties – apparently making Prime Minister Boris Johnson an international

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Among the voices raised in opposition to the Internal Market Bill, one voice is missing, that of the trade unions and their members, ordinary workers and for good reason. For one thing they have more important things to do like getting the economy going and keeping people in

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“The U.S. intelligence community must invest in understanding its own business model to make data-driven decisions for the future,” argue authors Katrina Mulligan, Cipher Brief Expert Matt Olsen and Alexandra Schmitt from the Center for American Progress. Katrina

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The “State of the European Union Address” is pronounced annually by the (Commission) President. We have just had the latest, and the very name gives its hubris away. Valery Giscard D’Estaing had high pretensions for ‘his’ EU constitution rivalling that of the United States,

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“The Cipher Brief has become the most popular outlet for former intelligence officers; no media outlet is even a close second to The Cipher Brief in terms of the number of articles published by formers.” – Sept. 2018, Studies in Intelligence, Vol. 62 No. Access

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In his August 4th column, James Crisp, Brussels correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, cast doubt on Iain Duncan Smith’s recent statement that the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement causes the UK to “remain hooked into the EU’s loan book.” While Mr Duncan Smith was

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In a surprising victory for common sense, the BBC’s new Director General Tim Davie has announced the Corporation will be reversing its decision to cancel the words of Rule Britannia and Land of Hope and Glory at the Last Night of the Proms. Despite continuing to claim the

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