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Farage meets his match (opens the original)
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Andy Burnham has turned his back on an era of political incrementalism, presenting a left-wing populist agenda delivered with a hopeful and empathetic tone, constituting Labour’s strongest challenge to Nigel Farage yet.<img al
From NYC, Latika Takes interviews Penny Wong (opens the original)
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This week Latika Takes: The Podcast is in New York at the United Nations General Assembly. <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1048" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pqjQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstac
Ukraine is in a precarious position (opens the original)
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Kyiv, Ukraine: Even as a lowly fifth-time visitor to wartime Ukraine, it is not hard to bump into friends in this particular district of the capital.Known as the ‘Soho of Kyiv’, the trendy district is home to several landmarks, including two gloriously-domed cathedrals and three major international hotels that make it notionally ‘safe’ for Western visitors, diplomats and the like.And so it goes when I step outside my hotel and bump into my Ukrainian friend, Alex Zakletsky, a former Nation
🇺🇦 From Kyiv, Latika Takes interviews ‘Achilles’ (opens the original)
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his week Latika Takes: The Podcast is in Kyiv, Ukraine at the Yalta European Strategy (YES) Conference. <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1048" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kQou!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A
Defence transcribed my questions on military spending as ‘inaudible’ (opens the original)
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Stung by criticism of Australia’s low defence spending, the Labor government this year decided to do something it has never done — add in non-capability spending, such as military pensions, to inflate the headline figure from around 2.3 per cent of GDP to 2.8 per cent. This, the government said, showed that according to NATO standards, they were performing above most of the Alliance. The US has, unsuccessfully, urged Australia to raise spending in line with the NATO target of 3.5 per cent by 203
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