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How Britain Broke the World: War, Greed and Blunders from Kosovo to Afghanistan, 1997-2022

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K. is not only our political parent but also our cultural co-partner, a wealthy nation that gave us modern capitalism and the Industrial Revolution.

The same circumstances that dictated the withdrawal from India required, at almost the same time, the termination of the mandate in Trans-Jordan, the evacuation of all of Egypt except the Suez Canal territory, and in 1948 the withdrawal from Palestine, which coincided with the proclamation of the State of Israel. A critic from the right who picks a fight with How They Broke Britain may be dismissed by O’Brien as just another hateful ideologue or client journalist, any review further evidence of the incestuous, corrupt and heinously biased world he works so hard to decry. He remains unmatched among modern broadcasters for impassioned analysis, biting irony, heartfelt sympathy and sheer rhetorical flourish.To receive the best experience possible, please make sure any ad blockers are switched off, or add https://experience. What we get is fact-based analysis, startling for the simple reason that so many of those facts land so disruptively, and startling for the consistency of the main trajectory, which is how poorly the UK has been served by its leaders in recent decades. Because it was apparently Campbell who helped 'sex up' the WMD dossier that led to the invasion of Iraq under Blair and this author brings us all up to date on what has happened to Iraq since then, over nearly 20 years: you won't read that in any UK newspaper.

Or, as the economic analyst Matt Klein puts it, “Take out Greater London—the prosperity of which depends to an uncomfortable degree on a willingness to provide services to oligarchs from the Middle East and the former Soviet Union—and the UK is one of the poorest countries in Western Europe. I have come to realise that stuff we live through we tend to brush off; it can't be history yet because it's happening today. But Putin also bases his foreign policy on grudge and vengeance, while generating nostalgia for past glories. The question is: Given that wokery came about on the Tory Party’s watch, how can they seriously fight an election on an anti-woke platform?In the eighteenth century, especially after the territorial gains of the Seven Years’ War, there was a widespread bitterness that the country had branched off from its constitutional roots; and against this background the historian Gibbon wrote his six-volume Decline and Fall. Wary of rising deficits, the British government pursued a policy of austerity, fretting about debt rather than productivity or aggregate demand. In this period of single-party government, the themes were economic change and the continued retreat from colonialism. It's funny that Alastair Campbell has reignited his career recently with that podcast with Rory Stewart, making fun of Boris.

In this book he argues that British post-imperial ambitions to ‘punch above our weight’ have significantly contributed to making the world more violent, dangerous and divided today than it has been at any time since the end of the Cold War. Cameron was brought down by the new ideology of Brexit, itself in at least some way driven by the migration crisis caused by the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria and Yemen.The digestion of a piece of writing can obviously be regurgitated in some instances, retrieved for a specific purpose and sometimes just lost. Snell highlights that it was, therefore, a British idea that a UN resolution was unnecessary for humanitarian military action. In his new book How Britain Broke the World, former diplomat Arthur Snell argues that recent foreign policy disasters have had an impact far beyond those countries.

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