Dr David Wearing is a Teaching Fellow in International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London, and author of AngloArabia: Why Gulf Wealth Matters to Britain exploring the UK’s relationship with the authoritarian Gulf states. Follow him on Twitter: @DavidWearing.
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Published in: ourBeebWhy is the BBC presenting RUSI as objective analysts of the Middle East?The ‘Royal United Services Institute’ has close links with the British state and its military establishment. The BBC...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKEd Miliband's foreign policy would not be benignFor political reasons, support for British militarism has been seen by successive Labour leaderships as a key test...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKHow many people have to die before we start talking responsibly about immigration?Last week’s deaths in the Mediterranean were directly linked to xenophobic politics in Britain.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKMichael Fallon and Ed Miliband are both wrong about Trident
Westminster's pro-nuclear consensus is held together by irrational speculation about future threats. Trident must be...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBritish diplomacy: PR for torturers
Maryam Alkhawaja, who was recently interviewed here at openDemocracy by David Wearing, has now been arrested in...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKIsrael proves that British arms export safeguards are worthless
Britain continues to sell arms to a state that shows continual and flagrant disregard for international law.