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Has David Cameron re-nationalised the national interest?
One of my bugbears is what I call the ‘internationalisation of the national interest’. It is the belief that the world has become so globalised and interconnected that every crisis is a threat to our health and well-being and that it is vital we are involved in sorting it out. The result of such a […]
James Wharton: ‘The strategic defence and security review has to be seen in the appropriate context’
September 19, 2010
I have decided to focus on my over-a-year-old paper on Afghanistan and the Conservative Party, and so much of this blog will probably be dominated by Afghanistan and British defence policy over the next few weeks as kind of a running commentary as I write it. The House of Commons had an excellent debate earlier […]
Copying America: The British Tea Party
September 18, 2010
I like freedom. I like democracy. I like choice. But as a conservative, I do not like agitation or disorder or any threats to the status quo. And as I have been trained as a historian, I cannot stand ignorance and myths taken at face value. One can imagine then that the idea of a […]
Cameron and Afghanistan: the importance of institutions and rhetoric
June 30, 2010
Has anything changed in our approach to Afghanistan with a change of government? Sayeeda Warsi, a minister and Chairwoman of the Conservative Party, has denied that the Prime Minister David Cameron has produced only rhetoric about the conflict and not a change in policy from Labour. Unlike under the last government, our goals in Afghanistan […]
December 16, 2011
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