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Zimbabwe Articles

Development dilemmas

Over Labour’s 13 years in office, Britain’s reputation on international development was transformed. Instead of cutting aid, as our predecessors had done, we tripled it. Instead of subsidising British firms with it, we passed landmark legislation to make it illegal to...

The intervention dilemma

‘We know why we were left to die. Because there are no resources in Rwanda. Only Rwandans.’ The speaker was a Rwandan politician we visited in 2006. A progressive approach to humanitarian intervention must begin with the desire to prove her wrong. If the left's ideals...

Tackling Britain’s ‘care crunch’

It is clear that the ‘care crunch’ – the crisis of inadequate and costly provision in childcare and adult social care – ought to be the focus of radical and bold thinking for progressive politics. The aim must be to revitalise the welfare state in Beveridge’s vision...

Ireland and the Commonwealth

A wise mandarin at the FCO once cautioned me that if came to foreign countries encouraging Ireland to join the Commonwealth it would be best done alphabetically. Countries such as Australia, India and Mozambique would have more sway than Ireland’s nearest neighbour.