The AEJ UK’s next meeting for journalists on May 23 explores the tough choices facing the UK and EU member states in view of Russia’s […]
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Time to change our view of the world – Baroness Valerie Amos
Report on the AEJ UK journalists meeting at Europe House on 19 March 2025 – from Peter Norman Baroness Valerie Amos, formerly a minister in […]
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Ukraine – a strategic review
The AEJ UK got an insider’s updated view of Ukraine at a lunchtime meeting on November 28. Olena Sotnyk, an advisor to Ukraine’s deputy prime […]
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Alternatives for Germany
What are the alternatives for Germany – and Europe? Recent unprecedented election gains in regional elections in eastern Germany for the right-wing Alternative für Deutschland party […]
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Information wars and the “endless” conflict over Gaza
At an AEJ lunch on June 13, two experts examined the rival national narratives, political messaging, and information controls which shape public understanding of the […]
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Europe’s “nightmare scenario” as elections near
With the European Parliament elections of June 6 – 9 predicted to show a turn to the right and ongoing wars in Ukraine and Gaza, […]
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Putin’s war in Ukraine – and at home
Vranyo – Russian for I’m telling lies and you know I’m telling lies but I’m going to tell them anyway. That was veteran Russia watcher […]
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Artificial intelligence and democracy: friend or foe?
Report by David Worsfold, AEJ-UK Treasurer, on an AEJ meeting with Professor Ciaran Martin at Regent’s University on 21 February 2024 on the theme of […]
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How to end the war between Israel and Hamas
How to end the war between Israel and Hamas and make it last is a most difficult challenge that was examined by Alistair Burt, the […]
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Lord Patten of Barnes on China and the World Order
Lord Patten, the Chancellor of Oxford University and the last British governor of Hong Kong, says it’s important that the rest of the world engages […]
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What future for the Wagner Group?
Andreas Krieg, an expert in surrogate warfare and the growth of private military companies, has assessed the Kremlin’s efforts to re-mould the notorious Wagner Group […]
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Understanding Ukraine’s “350-year war” for independence
William Horsley reports on the AEJ’s meeting on 5 June 2023 with researcher and political scientist Jaroslava Barbieri Jaroslava Barbieri is an Italo-Ukrainian political scientist […]
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Brexit – an audit of UK-EU relations
Anand Menon, director of UK in a Changing Europe, predicts that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Windsor Framework agreement resetting trade rules for the island of […]
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The UK economy – not as bad as you might believe
Simon French, chief economist at British investment bank Panmure Gordon and former senior civil servant, says the UK’s economic performance and outlook are both broadly […]
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The world’s response to covid – what went wrong and right
For two years the covid pandemic dominated our news, shocking us with the impact of its spread and the variation in policy responses from different […]
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