By the Editor – The author bemoans a calamitous reduction in British aid and thus our soft power influence, and the Integrated Review’s conclusion that supports a strategic intent of becoming a more global Britain. In doing so he suggests the inevitability of a reduction of the UK to a rump of little England, a state more representative, he argues, of the level of the UK’s residual influence in the world. Is that really the case for the world’s 5th largest economy, with demonstrable global trade and other interests? There are facts and assumptions below that can be challenged – your thoughts a…
