Policy Papers
‘After the Rupture’: The Aid Dilemma of Middle Powers
Aid policy poses a dilemma for middle-ranking global powers. As multilateral guarantees weaken and US leadership becomes less predictable, they appear to face a choice between doubling down on rights-based aid or aligning more explicitly with security-driven priorities. Yet history suggests that a blended approach is possible.
Learning from the past to face the challenges of food security in the twenty-first century
UK food security has relied more on circumstance than strategy. Past crises offer lessons for building future resilience.
Opinion Articles
‘Children couldn’t have been treated like that.’ But we were. What a Survivor of Childhood Tuberculosis Can Teach Today’s Policymakers
Drawing on the experiences of her father, Harry Drabble, a survivor of childhood bovine tuberculosis, Helen Parker-Drabble argues that the long-term psychological and developmental impact of prolonged hospitalisation in childhood is a neglected aspect of today’s policy discussions.
The long history of debates about gun control
The tragic shootings at Bondi Beach and Brown University have put questions of gun control back in the spotlight. These debates are almost as old as guns themselves and they point to the extent to which cultural attitudes to firearms are deeply embedded.
News
Holocaust Memorial Day 2026
Registration is still open for Professor David Feldman’s lecture ‘Mourning, memory and politics: memorialization of the Holocaust in Britain from the 1940s to the present day’.
Article to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act
Hilary Cooper publishes article to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act becoming law.
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Remembering the General Strike, 100 years on



