John Bew essay on the Chilcot Report
At 2.6 million words, and seven years in the making, there is no question that the Chilcot Report is comprehensive, if not quite the final word on British involvement in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.[8] In one sense, it is an antidote to some of the wilder conspiracy...
The role of intervention in future UK foreign policy
The role of intervention in future UK foreign policy: Dr John Bew previews an upcoming Policy Exchange paper co-authored by Tom Tugendhat MP and the late Jo Cox MP Britain in the World project at Policy Exchange was launched at the end of March 2016, in order to...
Why the Joint Committee on Human Rights got the law wrong on drone warfare
The challenges facing the British armed forces – and indeed the British Government – on the battlefield are changing rapidly. While conflict between nation states cannot be ruled out in the future, battles are increasingly being fought against highly mobile...
The ECHR must no longer apply to our armed forces in wartime
The introduction of the Human Rights Act 1998 brought into UK law the European Convention on Human Rights. Before you switch off and decide that this is a dry legal cleaning up exercise, as the Labour government said at the time, consider its implications: we have...
