
Yuan Yi Zhu
Contributor at Freelance
Assistant prof of international relations and int law; sometime political advisor; book reviewer; all views personal; priv @oxon_rambler; Zhu = last name
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3 weeks ago |
thecritic.co.uk | Yuan Yi Zhu
A not-so-definitive account of Ireland’s Great Famine This article is taken from the June 2025 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £25. There have been many famines in Irish history, but there is only one Famine, a national catastrophe which from 1845 until 1852 killed at least a million people, forced another one and a half million to leave their homeland and poisoned Anglo-Irish relations forever.
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4 weeks ago |
thecritic.co.uk | Yuan Yi Zhu
Labour’s affection for the European Convention on Human Rights is on the wane This article is taken from the June 2025 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £25. One of Sir Keir Starmer’s first gestures when he became prime minister was to declare “We will never withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights” to the leaders of Europe assembled at Blenheim Palace.
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1 month ago |
cityam.com | Yuan Yi Zhu
Thursday 29 May 2025 5:29 am | Updated: Wednesday 28 May 2025 12:45 pm Churchill myths and bad history are no reason to defend the ECHR Prime Minister Winston Churchill outside 10 Downing Street, gesturing his famous ‘V for Victory’ hand signal, London, June 1943.
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1 month ago |
policyexchange.org.uk | Conor Casey |Yuan Yi Zhu
This new paper from Policy Exchange challenges the view that the European Convention on Human Rights is a “British legacy” – and that to leave the Convention would be to a “betrayal” of Sir Winston Churchill.
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1 month ago |
yahoo.com | Yuan Yi Zhu
On Thursday, the British Government signed a treaty with Mauritius which, if ratified by Parliament, will grant Mauritius the sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, which have belonged to the United Kingdom since 1815. In addition, the UK undertook to pay £101m a year for the next 99 years, in addition to various payments to Mauritius, for a total bill of billions of pounds.
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