Reform UK’s record-breaking billionaire donation exposes a political funding system that allows private wealth to overwhelm democratic choice. Parliament must act before the next election. A British political party has just secured the largest single donation in our political history. Ben Delo, the cryptocurrency billionaire and co-founder of BitMEX, has announced a further £36 million… Continue reading Politics is not for sale
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Stop the War: The case for law, restraint and independent British leadership
Last Saturday, I wrote a piece titled War Is Not Liberation: A Plea for Restraint, Law and the Protection of Civilians. In it I argued that military escalation in the Middle East risked inflicting terrible harm on ordinary people while undermining the framework of international law that exists to restrain the use of force. Sadly,… Continue reading Stop the War: The case for law, restraint and independent British leadership
Living in truth: Middle Powers must lead, and Britain, with Canada and the EU, should be with them
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Canadian Premier Mark Carney delivered one of the most important speeches of this decade. It deserves to be read not as a Canadian intervention alone, but as a blueprint for every serious democracy that refuses to drift into vassalage in a world of unrestrained power politics. Carney named… Continue reading Living in truth: Middle Powers must lead, and Britain, with Canada and the EU, should be with them
C. E. Lord OBE 