Uploaded April 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Arthur Snell, author and political commentator

Hosted by Dr Martin Farr

Britain prizes its ability to ‘punch above its weight’ in foreign affairs. Some dismiss this as delusional, post-imperial nostalgia. A former UK Ambassador argues that Britain has been influential, but this has often delivered negative outcomes: from undermining the UN over Kosovo and Libya, to the provision of false intelligence justifying the invasion of Iraq. Therefore, the broken international order of 2022 owes much to Britain’s lack of strategy and institutional weakness.

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