by Helen Ramscar ‘Vaccine diplomacy’ is becoming nasty. Last week UK, US and Canadian intelligence agencies together pointed to Russia as almost certainly behind the ongoing cyber-attacks by APT29 (‘The Dukes’/‘Cozy Bear’) on national and international organisations striving for a Covid-19 vaccine.[1] In May, Reuters reported that Iranian-linked hackers ‘Charming Kitten’ have been cyber-attacking pharmaceutical …
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The British-Swiss Chamber of Commerce's latest webinar discussion, entitled Emerging from Multiple Crises: Strategies for a More Successful Britain, with British analysts and authors Michael Clarke and Helen Ramscar, was held on 15th July 2020. The webinar was moderated by international broadcaster and journalist, Hannah Vaughan Jones and can be viewed in full below. https://videopress.com/v/146G1hj6?preloadContent=metadata …
‘Brave decision Minister’. Those were the words of Sir Humphrey in Yes Minister when he wanted to put the fear of God into Jim Hacker and kybosh some hobbyhorse scheme the minister had dreamed up over the week-end. ‘Brave decision’. Does the idea of habitually basing one of Britain’s new aircraft carriers somewhere in the …
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The Challenge of Defending Britain by Michael Clarke takes the complexity of British defence policy apart to view its anatomy and show how policy is made in this area. British defence policy is in a phase of great transition as the country confronts its Brexit future and also as world politics becomes more threatening and …
Defence cuts are back in fashion and the Army is again in the Treasury’s sights. The Army is currently 74,000 strong. But that is the wrong number in any case. It will need to be either bigger or smaller to fit into a coherent defence strategy. Michael Clarke outlines the problem. Defence Chiefs went to …
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Tipping Point 
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