We need to rethink our foreign policy not in the world we would like, but in the world we actually live in.
It increasingly seems to have moved away from a strategy to a phrase wheeled out whenever someone wants to justify a policy or idea they’ve had.
We should take pride in seven decades of refugee protection, and it is a principle we must uphold in the future too.
Britain has a moral responsibility to do something in Libya, having played a key role in creating the dangerous vacuum that is swallowing the country today.
The signs are beginning to emerge that the Biden presidency is taking the Wuhan theory seriously.
The truth is that all nations are becoming digital nations, and their digital citizens will require access to digital services.
And if that projection is to be effective, we will need to invest in our operating bases – and not just at traditional sites.
Erin O’Toole, Leader of the Official Opposition of Canada, championed the idea during his bid to run the Conservative Party of Canada.
It will need to make hard choices and to show evidence of a clarity and long-term vision that, to date, have been rather notable by their absence.
Though micro-measures aimed at those responsible might work: travel bans, asset seizures, arrest warrants.
It allows for criticism and negotiation provided the West stands together to call out abuses.
So the only question that remains, given this new compromise plan, is: what’s the Government’s objection now?
He’s General Min Aung Hlaing, the army’s Commander-in-Chief. Now is the time for sanctions that target the military.
After COP26, Sharma could be out of a job, and the impetus generated by hosting the UN climate change conference could be lost.