David Blagden
@blagden_david
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Associate Professor @SSI_Exeter @exeterpolitics @UniofExeter. Senior Associate Fellow @NATO_DefCollege. Co-Editor @UExeterPress Strategic & Security Studies.
University of Exeter, UK
Joined March 2015
Look what finally landed! My volume (co-edited with @soulpatch68) on 'Games: Conflict, Competition, and Cooperation'. Available from @CambridgeUP: (and a large, well-known online retailer). Intro available free here: Featuring.
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RT @OldStationSt: Historic listed building? ✔️.Disused for a while ✔️.Earmarked for residential dev ✔️.Development seemingly stalled ✔️."My….
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RT @david_stillwell: Third children of poor parents: please sir, may I have some child benefits?. Pensioners: NO, you haven't earned it!!.
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So, even if you accept the other costs - e.g. India reneging on its UK trade deal, plus censure by various other non-Western states - London might also find itself right out on a limb vis-a-vis key allies too (e.g. Washington cutting a basing deal directly with Port Louis).
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Nothing’s impossible, but that could be extremely costly. The world - potentially including a post-Trump US - would view it as UK annexation of Mauritian territory. And Washington really doesn’t want a spat with Delhi (Mauritius’ ally) when it’s trying to counter China. 1/2.
Reform will rip up the Chagos deal, stop the payments & reclaim sovereignty to UK.
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(If they really want to “restor[e] order to the roads”, they could authorise the Army Air Corps to use Apache gunships against those hogging the middle lane of the M5 during the summer holidays).
Wonks (etc) who still want this govt to succeed: “please, expend your political capital on big stuff that delivers real productivity gains without pointlessly annoying the median voter!”. This proposal: “ok, let’s ban having a pint at a country pub!” 🤦♂️.
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Wonks (etc) who still want this govt to succeed: “please, expend your political capital on big stuff that delivers real productivity gains without pointlessly annoying the median voter!”. This proposal: “ok, let’s ban having a pint at a country pub!” 🤦♂️.
birminghammail.co.uk
The two countries' drink-driving limit is also set to be tightened to be in line with Scotland's, according to reports.
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RT @staylorish: This seems entirely credible to me. SNP politicians are programmed to avoid thinking about consequences. Without this progr….
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RT @JoePS123: Not only this, but you can make left critiques of the state of our criminal justice system. The Tories slashed the number of….
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RT @DespoticInroad: Judging by the extent to which the story has been propagated, you’d think the “record-breaking millionaire exodus” woul….
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RT @pinstripedline: A grim read on the state of the Royal Navy - 16 ships scrapped in last 4 years, just 2 SSNs and 2 RFA entered service.….
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The current condition of the RN is alarming, with almost every aspect of its capabilities understrength or overstretched. This long-form article assesses the current situation, analyses the root...
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RT @BBCWorld: Bowen: Israeli settlers intensify campaign to drive out West Bank Palestinians
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In the shadow of the Gaza war, violence is rising in the occupied territories as radical settlers seize land with the backing of the government.
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RT @JimCognito2016: I've just had a quick glance over the Reform MPs and Councillors and their spend and I've been able to identify over £1….
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RT @Dan4Barnet: "Per capita GDP growth less impressive", well there's an understatement!. Adjusting for population growth, the UK economy i….
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RT @duncanrobinson: Tell us that we pay for social care and special needs out of the litter picking and flower pot budget.
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“Myth of a stagnant decade”
Recent UK economic history being rewritten to suit current political agendas. So let’s set out some facts. Britain’s real GDP grew by 18.7% from the end of 2010 (Q4 2010) to the end of 2019 (Q4 2019). In other words the UK economy grew by almost a fifth in real terms in the.
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RT @MittensOff: UKIP’s Nick Tenconi bravely re-enacts history’s worst moments outside a hotel housing asylum seekers. Nothing says “patriot….
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RT @smithemma14e: Parts of plans for China’s mega-embassy in London have been completely redacted- several rooms & entire basement hidden “….
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RT @PrivateEyeNews: Why Dubai is finished. by Our London Correspondent.Isabel Cheapshott. From the new Private Eye, out now. .
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