Season 2, Podcast #1 – Professor Phillips O’Brien

Author’s Note: Welcome back to the BIGA Podcast! This season, we’re focusing on Security, Strategy, and Defence to explore the threats, challenges, and opportunities facing the UK and what it can do to prepare. Let us know what themes you would like us to explore in future seasons! The news is rife with bombastic personalities …

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Who is Strategy For?

I’m excited to announce that next week, season two of the BIGA podcast will begin and the theme for the season will be: Security, Strategy, and Defence. With Peter Jones helping to round out our season on diplomacy, it seems a fitting leap to discuss all things security. I’ve written previously about strategy, in particular …

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Bad Apples: Adolescence, masculinity, and expression in the UK

Author’s Note: This piece is looking at the recent Netflix show Adolescence as a starting point for conversation about gender in the UK. As such, there will be spoilers about the show and I would recommend you watch it before reading this piece. ‘overall, male emotional repression is good, actually’. This was one of the …

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Building the Transport to the Future

Author’s Note: On the 20th of February, the British Institute of Global Affairs was honoured to have been invited to attend the ‘Unconference: Building the Transport of the Future’. The event was hosted in Leeds by Civic Future and Britain Remade, organisations aiming to encourage civic leadership and to “make it easier for Britain to …