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I find myself in the unusual position of having some sympathy for Vance & co on the substance. It is true that the UK directly participated in previous strikes, that some Europeans supported these, and that there are other European missions in the Red Sea. But let's face it:

Pleased that our article on the war prerogative and the Royal Navy is out in the latest issue of Public Law!

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Great to see our article in the latest issue of Public Law, looking at the Royal Navy and the war prerogative!

'Rolls-Royce is our largest high-value manufactured goods export, generating 1% of GDP.' Read Aled Maclean-Jones on British industrial prowess 👇buff.ly/V2DKkT8

A pleasure as always to join Alastair Benn and Paul Lay on the excellent EI podcast. Come for the discussion of geopolitics and stay for the chat about WWE wrestling and kayfabe!

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The last time a reigning monarch opened the Canadian Parliament was in 1977 (QEII’s Silver Jubilee), while the last opened outside the UK was New South Wales in 1992. Given the federal parliament in Ottawa is currently being refurbished, the choreography will be interesting 1/2

Now out in the April 2025 edition of Public Law: Public Law

My thoughts on the King giving the throne speech in Canada:

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The King is not Commander in Chief in Canada. He holds the power of command in chef, whereas the GG is Commander in Chief as per Letters Patent. The distinction here is between supreme military command *authority* and an office of Commander in Chief bestowed by that authority.

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Samuel White, Daniel Skeffington, and Geoffrey S. Corn argue that as domestic courts become more willing to entertain challenges to executive power, AUKUS’s legal vulnerability could translate into strategic paralysis.

BREAKING: The UK will buy at least 12 F-35 stealth jets that can carry nuclear bombs in the most significant strengthening of its nuclear capability in a generation, the government has said. Sir Keir Starmer will tell a summit of NATO allies in The Hague on Wednesday that the new

B. Eyre Crowe is back. The most remarkable thing about the NSS - missed by the whole commentariat - is its clear choice that for the UK being an island nation is the starting point for everything else. It’s true in defence at home, strong abroad, and in key sovereign cap:

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Nietzsche believed in slow reading: attentive, effortful, and transformative. In my latest essay for Engelsberg Ideas , I explore his philosophy of reading against the rush of modern life.

Questions about how the “war powers” work in practice? Check out my piece in American Political Science Review. TL;DR President is far more constrained by Congress that usually realized.

RAND paper w/ scenarios for artificial general intelligence. "humans begin to cede authority to AGI...These...are able to rapidly establish influence & control over large swaths of society & become so essential they cannot be turned off even by humans" rand.org/pubs/research_…