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...He joined London Weekend Television in 1979 as a researcher, where he rose to editor of a range of current affairs programmes....
...President Joe Biden has nominated Kurt Campbell to be deputy secretary of state, in a move that will catapult the White House’s influential Indo-Pacific tsar to the position of second-ranking diplomat in...
...He has also worked for Mark Warner, the current chair of the Senate intelligence committee, and for Biden’s current climate envoy and former US secretary of state John Kerry....
...Kurt Campbell, the Biden administration’s former Asia tsar, was on Tuesday confirmed by the Senate in his new role as deputy secretary of state, giving him a wider foreign affairs remit than the Indo-Pacific...
...The attack follows a warning in an interview last month by the head of the International Maritime Organization, the UN body for maritime affairs, over the threat of a resurgence in piracy....
...“It was an unprecedented leak of MI5’s secrets for government advantage,” said Tim Tate, author of an upcoming book on the Spycatcher affair....
...UK home secretary Suella Braverman on Tuesday asked world leaders to consider whether the UN Refugee Convention was “fit for the modern age”, in a speech that queried the treaty that has underpinned international...
...Harvey Redgrave, home affairs lead at the Tony Blair Institute think-tank, said that if the recent recruitment of 20,000 police officers led to an increase in charge rates, the court system would not be...
...He sketches a London milieu of army and naval veterans, discharged from the Napoleonic wars; bored and restless young soldiers cooped up in single-sex barracks; public-schooled aristocrats milling in gentlemen-only...
...The business secretary has accused Staunton of making “wild, baseless allegations”....
...Business secretary Kemi Badenoch has accused Staunton of lying and seeking revenge after his dismissal, launching an excoriating attack on a business figure in the wake of his comments....
...The veteran US diplomat George Kennan, architect of the west’s policy of Soviet containment, described Nato’s eastward expansion in 1997 as “the most fateful error of American policy in the entire post-cold...
...A veteran of the second world war, a pioneering psychiatrist and an anti-colonial militant — at the time of his death, Fanon was an ambassador for Algeria’s National Liberation Front (FLN) — he was also...
...The critical Commons vote came on a rebel amendment put forward by veteran Tory MP Sir Bill Cash that would have disapplied international law to curtail legal appeals by irregular migrants....
...Staunton, a City of London veteran who was sacked by business secretary Kemi Badenoch in late January after a little more than a year in the job, had himself been investigated for what he called “politically...
...Veteran British diplomat Lord John Kerr, who is on the international agreements committee in the House of Lords, said the bill would do “immense harm” to Britain’s reputation....
...Dowden’s intervention came after Tom Tugendhat, security minister, said that Remembrance Day was a “day of grief” for military veterans and not an “appropriate” time for a demonstration....
...It will also impose a “legal duty” on the home secretary to detain and remove such people either to their country of origin or to a “safe” third country....
...Wilson’s Downing Street affair | Three decades after Harold Wilson’s death, and 48 years on from the end of his premiership, the former prime minister’s long-serving press secretary Joe Haines has told for...
...Nato Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg visits Serbia and North Macedonia....
...John Healey, shadow defence secretary minister, said that with better planning, all of the refugees could by now be in purpose-built housing....
...Suella Braverman, the home secretary, was forced to admit earlier this month that provisions of the controversial bill could breach the European Convention on Human Rights....
...He was supported by home secretary Suella Braverman, who added that asylum seekers showed “heightened levels of criminality”, including prostitution and drug dealing....
...The announcements follow the appointment this week of veteran TV executive Samir Shah as the new chair of the BBC for four years....
...The UK’s Scottish secretary Alister Jack has argued that if it enacted, the Scottish bill would cut across the 2010 UK Equalities Act, which was “a vital piece of legislation and the cornerstone in the protection...
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