30th March 2023
New Thinking Archive: Braverman and UK Asylum Seekers
Quite rightly, the treatment of UK immigrants and asylum seekers is back in the news. There’s a lot to say about the UK government’s handling of these delicate policy issues,…
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22nd March 2023
New Thinking Archive: China and Illicit Trade
This week, another article from the New Thinking magazine archive – on the reality of China’s illicit trade. Timely, given President Xi’s recent visit to Moscow. A few interesting, and…
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16th March 2023
New Thinking archive: Long Road to Justice
Editors at New Thinking magazine – for whom I write a fortnightly column – have generously allowed me to “re-blog” some archive material that created either stimulating feedback or wider…
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5th August 2022
Where have I been hiding? At New Thinking, of course…
Apologies to ‘regular’ readers of this blog, who will have noticed that I’ve not exactly been active on here over the past year. A friend recently asked me whether the…
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7th July 2021
Doctors’ A&E warning as Javid targets ‘Freedom Day’
As I write, UK ministers are reviewing updated COVID-19 figures intending to lift most restrictions from 19 July – but hospital doctors have warned A&Es are already overwhelmed and face…
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1st March 2021
Biden urged: strengthen FinCEN’s illicit finance role
A “Manhattan Project” set-up should be established to tackle the US$1 trillion annual money laundering market draining the US economy of vital state funds, a leading think-tank has reported. In…
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