Paul Rogers is Emeritus Professor of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford and Global Security Consultant with Oxford Research Group (ORG). He has worked in the field of international security, arms control and political violence for over 30 years. He lectures at universities and defence colleges in several countries and has written or edited 26 books, including Global Security and the War on Terror: Elite Power and the Illusion of Control and Why We're Losing the War on Terror. Since October 2001 he has written monthly Briefing Papers on international security and the "war on terror" for ORG. He is also a regular commentator on global security issues in both the national and international media, and is openDemocracy’s International Security Editor. .. more
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Hate to be annoying, but any chance you could retweet so old twitter followers can find me if they want to? Going to delete my twitter, or at least abandon it on lock and let it die a slow death.
We've had 15 years of austerity (and everything is shit) having listened to basically the same economists with the same ideas, none of which have worked out particularly well, have they?
Should we try a different approach? "Ha ha, no" seems to be the answer.
Punish them all.
Any reputational damage would have been noticed since then, surely?
They're not correct, but that's what they think.
But we've also lost so, so many people (retirement) who can make and design tools, prototypes etc. The last cohort of these is nearly finished retiring. When they go, it's finished.
Neither is very likely though, is it?
Or maybe he's an absolute crazy.
All that waffle from Starmer about not all politicians are the same is looking, erm, ironic.
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To offer real refugee policy, not parrot Farage.
To show Britain is better than this.
Instead we’re cowering. We must do better. They must do better.
They can't try the same back-pedal this time.