Helen Ramscar points to the urgent need to protect the UK life sciences sector from the impact of halted clinical trials across therapy areas and reduced research funding due to Covid. For the buoyancy of the sector is critical to the UK’s ability to continue pioneering pharmacological countermeasures (medicines, treatments, vaccines) to biosecurity risks like …
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The following book review by Derek Hawes features in the March 2020 edition of the Journal of Contemporary European Studies 28 (2): 1-2. The original can be accessed here. JCES Book Review Derek Hawes. February 2020 Slipping Loose: The UK’s Long Drift Away from the European Union. By Martin Westlake. (Agenda Publishing, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK) 2020. …
Continue reading Tipping Point review: Journal of Contemporary European Studies
The Evening Standard article of 22 October 2020 can be read here: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/british-forces-struggle-new-drone-swarms-a4572560.html
The Financial Times article of 21 October 2020 can be read here: https://www.ft.com/content/f9a7223b-d9e9-4a61-bda3-bd4b74385f1a
Wednesday 14 October 2020 Episode 2334 (30 minutes) can be found here: https://monocle.com/radio/shows/the-briefing/2334/transparency-and-coronavirus/
Professor David Galbreath, Faculty Dean of Social Science, Professor of International Security, University of Bath
The idea that Britain is contemplating breaking international law in the Internal Market Bill is not as much of an outlier as many people think. When it comes to international law, Britain is beginning to look like a serial petty offender with quite a lot of Previous. If the last three governments have got short …
The following book review by Andrew Moravcsik features in the September/October 2020 edition of Foreign Affairs and can be accessed here. Two London-based policy analysts study the challenges and opportunities facing British foreign policy. On challenges, they recycle clichés: the world is materially better but people remain dissatisfied, inequality and xenophobia threaten liberal democracy, globalization …
The original, dated 25 August 2020, can be found on The Times website here.
Michael Clarke, professor of defence studies at King's College London, notes: "The emphasis on the heavy metal of military forces is seen as a shibboleth of old thinking in an era that is fast disappearing for everyone - except the super power." The full article by BBC Defence Correspondent Jonathan Beale can be found here.
