By Helen Ramscar. 16 February 2021. Russia’s vaccine was given an international boost by its recent review in The Lancet, which supports the view that Sputnik V was at least as safe and effective as the leading US and UK vaccines. Given Russia’s reputation for dispatching deadly poisons – a signature Russian GRU calling card …
General Sir Nick Carter, Chief of the Defence Staff, delivered a speech this week that laid down some big challenges; to our adversaries, our allies and to our own Government. Any CDS can be relied on to ‘stay on message’ and in this case he certainly did. But he was also holding up a mirror …
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By @MikeClarke2020s The Chancellor and the Treasury pulled a fast one on the Prime Minister and No.10 when it cancelled the three-year Comprehensive Spending Review in favour of last week’s interim one-year settlement. It looked as if the Ministry of Defence would be the big loser. And the famous ‘Integrated Review’ of all Britain’s external …
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By @HelenRamscar Encouraging data released from the Pfizer[1], Moderna[2] and Oxford University[3] vaccine trials have hit headlines worldwide. Yet indications of a new SARS-CoV-2 variant named 20A.EU1[4], which originated in Spanish farms and spread successfully across Europe, followed by confirmation that a SARS-CoV-2 mutation found in mink in Denmark has transmitted into humans in no fewer …
Continue reading As The Virus Mutates, So Will Vaccine Nationalism
Letter to the Editor, published online on 19 November 2020, can be found here: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/times-letters-boris-johnson-s-green-industrial-revolution-g76s2przl
The Financial Times article of 19 November 2020 can be found here: https://www.ft.com/content/e72674cc-6063-4146-ac7a-bf3c72840432
Financial Times article of 19 November 2020 can be found here: https://www.ft.com/content/684a9881-c964-478b-b87b-84aa697810f2
@MikeClarke2020s In the astonishing aftermath of Joe Biden’s convincing win in the US Presidential Election there now seem to be three separate Donald Trumps locked in the White House. None of them are him; but he is simultaneously all of them. Shakespeare would have understood this figure; at once propelled to the throne by the …
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The Commons Foreign Affairs Committee has produced its report on The Future of the UK’s International Policy, looking at how the UK should marshal its resources for the future. Michael Clarke’s evidence for the report was published by the Committee. In it, he stressed how Britain must keep its focus on the post-Covid world it will …
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The Overseas Operations Bill has been passed by the Commons and will now be examined in the Lords. The Bill seeks to protect troops from vexatious legal claims by creating a ‘triple lock’ that would make it very difficult for any claims to be pursued after five years. But General Sir Nick Parker, former Land …
Continue reading Overseas Operations Bill: Aiming at the Wrong Target
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