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Join Me Up Scotty: Shifting from the National to the Local

17^th September 2014
- Dan Gregory
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Over the past few decades, our friends north of the border have often experimented with various innovative policy approaches – though never before on quite such significant issues as devolution, self-determination and democracy itself – providing a testing ground for ideas which sometimes then spread more widely across the UK.
Is journalism dead, or merely dying?

27^th August 2014
- Dr. Tim Madge
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Above and beyond the knotty question of how best to regulate newspapers, as well as how to preserve the freedom of the press, possibly by turning our attention to individual journalists, through some form of licensing, lurk two bigger issues.
Destructive Ambiguity: Why European Defence needs a re-think

26^th August 2014
- Professor Julian Lindley-French
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Last week German TV programme Monitor on Das Erste ran a piece on NATO. Central to the ten minute report was my latest NATO Defence College/Wilton Park report “NATO’s Post-2014 Strategic Narrative”.
Repositioning Islamic finance as a grassroots international business catalyst

22^nd August 2014
- Dr Jonathan A.J. Wilson
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London has raised its flag as a hub for Islamic finance. A clear signal of intent was outlined at the 9th World Islamic Economic Forum (WIEF), held in London towards the end of 2013, by David Cameron, Baroness Warsi, and Boris Johnson.
Is it Groundhog Day for British Banking?

19^th August 2014
- James Watkins
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After the debilitating financial crisis, the opprobrium heaped upon bankers and taxpayers obliged to bail out the banks, you would be forgiven in thinking that the banking sector was now open, transparent and offering good deals to customers.
The West’s Retreat from Humanitarianism

19^th August 2014
- Professor Julian Lindley-French
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Today is World Humanitarian Day. The event commemorates the 19 August 2003 bombing of the UN Headquarters in Baghdad. Among the dead was the UN’s top envoy Sergio Viera de Mello with whom I had spent a day in Geneva shortly before he left for Iraq.
The West Needs an Indirect Approach to the Middle East

15^th August 2014
- Professor Julian Lindley-French
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T.E. Lawrence wrote, “In fifty words: granted mobility, security in the form of denying targets to the enemy, time and doctrine (the idea to convert every subject to friendliness), victory will rest with the insurgents, for the algebraic factors in the end are decisive, and against then perfection of means and spirit struggle quite in vain”.
Licence to Print: An alternative to press regulation

14^th August 2014
- Dr. Tim Madge
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Is journalism a profession or a trade? Either way, should professional journalists, who seek to earn their living from the reporting of news and current affairs, be required to hold some form of accredited licence?
We must control fugitive emissions to make sure shale gas really is cleaner

8^th August 2014
- Jane Burston
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As Sam Fankhauser has said elsewhere on this blog, natural gas will be a useful ‘bridge’ fuel in our transition away from coal and oil, and could balance the intermittent supply from renewables by providing a more adaptable form of electricity supply.
We need to employ preventative strategies to save our NHS

8^th August 2014
- Isabella Miller
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It is widely agreed that the NHS is in the midst of a crisis. As a result of Government funding pressures and a rise in complex and long-term conditions, the NHS faces a potential affordability gap of £30 billion by the end of the decade.

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