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

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by helping create failed states in Libya and Syria, there have been surging immigrant crises, which have come to our doors, looking for help, which the UK is unwilling to deal with. China has been investing significantly in many Commonwealth countries over the last 30 years, particularly in Africa, where they see African raw material extraction as vital for fuelling the fourth industrial revolution, and access to Africa’s markets important in keeping their economy growing. There will remain those who believe that austerity was the right decision after Labour “maxed out our credit card”; who continue to harp on about Brexit benefits; and who say Liz Truss really had the right ideas but was brought down by the “left-wing establishment”. It's funny that Alastair Campbell has reignited his career recently with that podcast with Rory Stewart, making fun of Boris.

Finally, in 1968, Wilson was confronted with an outbreak of civil rights agitation in Northern Ireland that quickly degenerated into armed violence. Putin may well have invaded Ukraine anyway (and in no way is Snell saying this is anything other than detestable) but in Putin's eyes, Russia is only doing what America and Britain have been doing, be that in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq or Libya. He remains unmatched among modern broadcasters for impassioned analysis, biting irony, heartfelt sympathy and sheer rhetorical flourish. That web could turn out to be an affectation of chance or the machinations of a reincarnated KGB, time will yet tell, but for those that have had power and privilege the invoice is stacking up. 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 point as elsewhere is that the reason for UK not intervening in Syria was as shabby and shambolic as its reason for intervening in all the other places. Without the UK's marginal but key role, he argues convincingly, the wars in Kosovo, Iraq, and Libya would not have happened and our world today would be safer. I don’t mean that whatever one says will have no effect on their success, though in the case of James O’Brien’s How They Broke Britain, which comprises an extended “charge sheet” of the nine men and one woman its author believes set the UK on a course of unnecessary decline, this is indubitably the case.

Today, in the wake of Brexit, Britain is once again broken – so argues commentator James O’Brien in his new book, How They Broke Britain.Brexit, which made us the “first country to impose economic sanctions on itself”, only added to government debt. When six of the country’s leading experts on Iraq went to Downing Street in 2002 seeking to warn Blair about the consequences of his actions, instead of asking about the country’s complex religious faultlines, one of the few questions the uninterested PM asked was “But he [Saddam] is evil, isn’t he?

O’Brien, a man of the Left, is not a one-note pigeon, and he lays into Jeremy Corbyn as fiercely as into any one of the right-wing conspirators.I can already see the Mail subscribers flocking to tell their friends that they know “what’s really going on” in politics.

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