When is a security threat not a security threat? When it's COVID. As we have written elsewhere, pandemic was categorised in the UK as a Tier One security threat. It was utterly sidelined and has resulted in 138,000 officially recorded deaths as of October 2021. Now more damning evidence has been released. Coronavirus report warned of … Continue reading Dereliction of Duty
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Doubly Unsafe : Our nuclear weapons bases ‘set to flood’
In an incredibly revealing 2019 gathering of the Climate and National Security Forum, senior USA naval defence officials candidly laid out the enormity of the climate – and by extension financial – emergency facing US bases at home and abroad. Unfortunately, the solutions were very much about reducing emissions and supporting mitigation and adaptation in … Continue reading Doubly Unsafe : Our nuclear weapons bases ‘set to flood’
Today marks UN International Peace Day
To coincide with this and the UN General Assembly meeting September 14-27, Tipping Point North South’s Transform Defence project publishes its updated briefing
Unforgiveable
The abject failure of post 9/11 foreign and military policies in Afghanistan The utter failure of international foreign and defence policy in Afghanistan (going back decades) with all the deep, profound consequences for the Afghan people, was the cumulative result of wilful, self seeking, ignorant, short-term, wrong-headed strategies which lined the pockets of defence contractors … Continue reading Unforgiveable
The UN Security Council and Climate Change
In June 2021, Security Council Report (SCR) published its first research report on this issue, The UN Security Council and Climate Change, which traces the evolution of Council engagement on this topic. Read more.
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