Iain Martin
Director London Defence Conference. Director Engelsberg Ideas. Publisher of Reaction. Weekly subscriber newsletter via link below
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1 week ago |
reaction.life | Iain Martin
When Donald Trump won last year’s US election, opponents of Britain’s Chagos Islands deal assumed he would ride in and reject the agreement forged by Sir Keir Starmer. To their bafflement, the Trump administration instead went along with the deal. Why? Last week, the UK government signed the controversial agreement giving Mauritius sovereignty over the islands, which include Diego Garcia, home to a joint US-UK military base that is a vital staging post in the Indian Ocean.
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2 weeks ago |
reaction.life | Iain Martin
For as long as I can remember it has been a fixed point in my worldview that one of Britain’s greatest advantages since the Second World War has been its two party Westminster system. Yes, of course, in the literal sense there are more than two parties in operation. The Liberal Democrats, the heirs to the old Liberal party, are always with us, although their numbers in parliament fluctuate. They have 72 MPs today, yet got only eight as recently as at the 2015 general election and eleven in 2019.
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4 weeks ago |
reaction.life | Iain Martin
“The battlelines for Ukraine are the frontline for western values,” said Keir Starmer today, who insisted: “The argument that defines this age is simple: National security is economic security.”The Prime Minister was speaking at the London Defence Conference on the 80th anniversary of VE Day, on the same week reports emerged that the Cabinet Office is secretly drawing up plans for how it would respond to a direct military attack by Russia.
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1 month ago |
reaction.life | Iain Martin
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1 month ago |
reaction.life | Iain Martin
This is Iain Martin’s weekly newsletter for subscribers. The cover of the Economist this week features a close-up of the face of Nigel Farage, the leader of Britain’s populist Reform party. He is, the cover line declares, the man Britain cannot ignore. As the Economist puts it, Farage’s arrival in the House of Commons at last year’s general election and the rise of his insurgent party means a new, more volatile era in British politics is coming. What, again?
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Congressional perspectives on the transatlantic relationship moderated by @CSPC_DC’s President & CEO @GlennNye, hosting @RepCarbajal, @RepTroyDowning, @RepJimmyPanetta & @sethmoulton at the #LDC2025. https://t.co/FuRUMQW8Jn
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