Rob Hastings
Special Projects Editor at The i Paper
Special Projects Editor @theipaper, writing long reads, interviews & investigations. Legal Reporting Award winner 2019. Spurs fan. https://t.co/NbxNEDQyQA
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2 days ago |
inews.co.uk | Rob Hastings
For decades, the Nato alliance has protected the UK and other members through a simple bond – any act of war against one nation counts as an attack on all of them. Thirty-two countries would automatically unite to fight back. Now, a former leader of the defence organisation is calling for a new pact among liberal democracies to deter economic bullies from launching trade wars – even if that means “retaliating” against Nato’s most powerful member, the US.
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5 days ago |
inews.co.uk | Rob Hastings
From its control of minerals that are critical to tech manufacturers, to its near monopoly on essential components for energy generation, China has potential strangleholds over vital supply chains that keep Britain functioning. But there is one industry where the UK’s huge reliance on the totalitarian state raises lethal concerns, which experts fear has been overlooked: medicines.
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1 week ago |
inews.co.uk | Rob Hastings
It’s a nightmare the West desperately wants to avoid: Iran producing nuclear weapons. This risk has worried presidents and prime ministers for decades. Now the country’s hardline Islamic dictatorship seems closer than ever to being able to build a bomb, just when international politics feels more dangerous than ever. Will negotiations between Tehran and Washington be able to avert yet another crisis facing the world?
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2 weeks ago |
nuclear-news.net | Rob Hastings |Christina MacPherson
‘I guarded Britain’s nuclear sites – our security can’t cope with new mini reactors’ mini reactors do not pose miniature hazards. “On security, size doesn’t matter. When it comes to the fuel and the byproducts, they are equally dangerous.”“You get less energy, but you’re still going to have exactly the same security concerns,” says Okuhara. “How enthusiastic is a site operator going to be paying for security when that’s eating into their bottom line?”INTERVIEW .
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3 weeks ago |
inews.co.uk | Rob Hastings
A controversial company raising money to help homeless military veterans has been warned by police and local councils for fundraising without permission on high streets and at railway stations. We R Blighty, a community interest company (CIC), has also been banned by the supermarket chain Morrisons from collecting cash from shoppers inside its stores.
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💊 80 per cent of the world's medicines rely on chemicals made in China - it also dominates drug ingredient processing 🇨🇳 Imagine if China cut our pharma supplies to win a confrontation... Experts tell me why they're worried, in this @theipaper long read https://t.co/XB8SM6NNHP
🇮🇷 A former UN weapons inspector warns that Iran could build a nuclear bomb in just six months, if talks with the US fail and the regime believes it needs a deterrent to survive 🔥 My interview with @DAVIDHALBRIGHT1 of @TheGoodISIS for @theipaper: https://t.co/EfnOzRlYpA
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