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

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In 2022, the Middle East is racked by civil war, aggressive nationalistic autocracies in China and Russia are poised to invade sovereign democracies (Taiwan and Ukraine), and the biggest nations cannot co-operate on vital issues such as climate change. Each baddie gets a chapter: Rupert Murdoch, Paul Dacre and Andrew Neil represent the press; Nigel Farage, David Cameron, Jeremy Corbyn, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss are his politicians; Matthew Elliott and Dominic Cummings of Vote Leave bring up the rear (like a pantomime horse).

Hutton is a former economics editor of The Guardian, former editor-in-chief of The Observer and former principal of Hertford College, Oxford. New Statesman "In this engrossing and frankly deeply troubling book, former senior British diplomat Snell explains how Britain’s often incompetent, inconsistent and sometimes downright greedy foreign policy has played a pivotal role in rendering the world a more dangerous place. With decades of service in the Foreign Office, Snell looks at British interventions from Kosovo to Iraq to Afghanistan, as well as UK policy towards Russia, Saudi Arabia and China. He expected the accounts to have been well thumbed in recent years, by analysts on behalf of government, but the archivist confirmed that the sources had not been disturbed for decades. 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.His analysis extends to commercial gain and the ‘laundromat’, for example, a reference to the UK’s unique ability to make kleptocrats feel at home, and to help them with their money laundering. Each colony's unique societies presented different political pressures which could sometimes lead to violence ranging from riots to massacres. Although it was cut short in December 1956, when UN emergency units supplanted British (and French) troops, the Suez intervention divided British politics as few foreign issues have done since. In this engrossing and frankly deeply troubling book , former senior British diplomat Snell explains how Britain’s often incompetent, inconsistent and sometimes downright greedy foreign policy has played a pivotal role in rendering the world a more dangerous place. His government inherited the problems that had accumulated during the long period of Conservative prosperity: poor labour productivity, a shaky pound, and trade union unrest.

K. manufacturing industry has less technological automation than just about any other similarly rich country.It also makes his criticisms of some extremely hard-working journalists (the BBC’s former political editor, Laura Kuenssberg; the presenter of Today, Nick Robinson) seem snide and unnecessary.

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