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Jamie Gaskarth

@jamiegaskarth.bsky.social
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Prof, Foreign Policy and IR, OU. Writes on British defence, intel and foreign policy. Associate Fellow, Chatham House. Views my own.

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Chatham House @chathamhouse.org · 5h
China represents the United Kingdom’s most significant and systemic security challenge to science and technology research. While collaboration with China generates benefits for the UK economy, the scale and sophistication of Beijing’s attempts to gain technological advantages pose a security risk.
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How the UK should protect its science and tech research from foreign state threats
A case for a more systemic approach to research security
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Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
England team is now largely made up of Conveyancing solicitors…Gibbs White, Alexander Arnold, Calvert Lewin…
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Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
2030 is gonna be some year. Defence spending at 3% AND a National Care Service. Wondrous.
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Simon Usherwood @simonusherwood.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Three years of production with a great team of colleagues and very excited to be at the start of our new IR module for @openuniversity.bsky.social @oupolitics.bsky.social And an extra shout-out to @preciouschatd.bsky.social for being the best co-chair!
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Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
PSA: if someone argues you can’t be English if you’re black, saying ‘Well, the English don’t exist akshually’ is not a clever or accurate response.
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Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is great news and something @rorycormac.bsky.social and I have been arguing for privately and publicly. We’ve authored a whole report on how to make it work available via KCL… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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UK to fight Russian disinformation and push new global AI standards, Burnham says
The UK could act as "an honest broker" on AI and other global challenges, the prime minister tells world leaders at the UN.
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Chatham House @chathamhouse.org · 19/09/2026
Xi Jinping wants to win over the Global South and take over Taiwan. If the West is to counter this, it must better understand China's grand strategy — and Xi Jinping's worldview. Read Steve Tsang's latest analysis for the autumn issue of @theworldtoday.org.
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What the West fails to grasp about China’s strategy to lead the world
Xi Jinping wants to forge ‘a common destiny for humankind’ by winning over the Global South and taking Taiwan. But if America and Europe are to counter this ‘double pivot’, they must better understand...
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Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
At an event at Swansea University and really impressed with how beautiful the bay campus is. Right on the beach!
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Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A puzzler: which Man Utd player would you prefer against their counterpart in any top 6 team? The mystery of why they’re so bad is solved.
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Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In all the reporting on the Yemen situation today, I haven’t seen one person mention the fact the UK is the UN Security Council penholder.
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Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This guy.. He consistently argues the UK shouldn't spend more on defence, then asks us to wake up and secure our own place in the world. With what Simon?! With what? (Cue goose meme....) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Wake up, Britain: Donald Trump’s US is no friend of ours. We must secure our own place in the world | Simon Jenkins
The US president is ever more wayward – and has little interest in defending Europe. The constitution may hold him to account, but we can’t wait, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
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Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
As a Viking, I’m staying out of this one. Still bitter about Stamford Bridge…
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I'm probably a dinosaur, but I wish students were allowed more time just to be students: to study, to read, to think, to talk to each other, to have big ideas - maybe even to have fun now & then. I'm not convinced turning unis into training centres is going to fix bigger problems in the jobs market
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A suggested statement for Andy Burnham.
‘The British public decided in the 1930s that they would not tolerate black-shirted militias marching through their streets. They would cherish robust political argument; they would not accept thuggery and intimidation. When Oswald Mosley led his Blackshirts to Cable Street, local people turned them back. A new law – introduced by a Liberal, backed by Labour and carried by a Conservative majority – banned private militias, political uniforms and ‘the use or display of physical force in promoting any political object’. The British people are as determined today as in the 1930s that they will not accept the methods of Mussolini and the Munich Beer Hall. This government will uphold the law and defend the traditions of British democracy’.
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Chatham House @chathamhouse.org · 07/09/2026
When the next international financial crisis hits, the world may lack the dominant superpower it needs to stabilise the global economic order.
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The ‘reverse Kindleberger Trap’: reasons to worry about the next financial crisis
A US crisis is very likely to be associated with a capital outflow, rather than a capital inflow, with the result that the dollar could weaken substantially against other currencies.
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Jonathan Boff @jfb1066.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Re-upping for my American friends
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Kate Allen @kateallen.ft.com · 06/09/2026
Tonight: defence and intelligence officials warn that Europe is failing to stop Russia from waging hybrid war. Russian proxies and intelligence agencies have for the past two years been prosecuting a covert war of aggression on European soil. (Gift link, 300 free clicks) as.ft.com/r/077657b5-6...
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Europe failing to deter Russia’s ‘hybrid’ war, warn defence officials
Foiled drone attack at German airport seen as sign of Nato’s weak response and Moscow’s impunity
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Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Who's the superpower here?
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British Foreign Policy Group @bfpg.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"Prime Minister Burnham and the case of the Inescapable Foreign Policy" BFPG Executive Chair David Landsman OBE examines the areas of foreign policy that will require the Prime Minister's attention. Click the link below to read⬇️ bfpg.co.uk/analysis/pri... #UKForeignPolicy #UKGov #Burnham
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Prime Minister Burnham and the case of the Inescapable Foreign Policy | BFPG
David Landsman examines the areas of foreign policy that will require the attention of the Prime Minister
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alina @ramshackle78.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
To be read in conjunction with the other recent very good article by Jana on why Germany has problems with all three of strategy, capabilities and societal consensus internationalepolitik.de/de/wenn-drau...
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Wenn draußen drinnen wird
Höchste Zeit für einen neuen deutschen Grundkonsens über Frieden und Sicherheit.
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Jonathan Boff @jfb1066.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I will give the 2026 Richard Holmes Lecture ‘Redcoats to Dusty Warriors: Britain and its Soldiers from Waterloo to Helmand’. Royal Air Force Club Tuesday 27 October 6.30, lecture starting at 7. Wine. Canapés. Tickets £45 each. Non-members welcome. Tickets- www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/richard-ho...
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Richard Holmes Lecture 2026
The BCMH hosts a lecture on military history in memory of Professor Richard Holmes
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Chatham House @chathamhouse.org · 02/09/2026
Andy Burnham needs to narrow the scope of the UK's defence programme to the Euro-Atlantic area, keep the nuclear deterrent — and settle how the UK will pay for the NATO commitment to spend 3.5 per cent of GDP on defence by 2035.
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What the Burnham government should do in its foreign policy
The new government must avoid its predecessors’ habit of trying to do everything. Priorities should include advancing the UK–EU reset talks, defending the Euro-Atlantic area, and working with the EU t...
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Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Two year degrees are a very bad idea. They cheapen and commodify learning; inhibiting the learning journey and reducing the skills and knowledge acquired. Wd also trash uni finances and UKHE reputation internationally.
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Chatham House @chathamhouse.org · 28/08/2026
Andy Burnham’s influence with the EU will be stronger if his top team reaches an early decision on whether the next Labour Party manifesto will commit the UK to joining the customs union, the single market or the European Union itself.
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What the Burnham government should do in its foreign policy
The new government must avoid its predecessors’ habit of trying to do everything. Priorities should include advancing the UK–EU reset talks, defending the Euro-Atlantic area, and working with the EU t...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Enjoyed this touching NYT tribute to Dolly Parton. What a great talent, generous heart, and heroic life. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/a...
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Dolly Parton, Country Music Superstar Whose Songs Spoke to Millions, Dies at 80 (Gift Article)
Known for her outsize persona, appearance and talent, she rose from rural poverty to become a top-selling singer, songwriter and entrepreneur.
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Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Some great ideas here! Myself and @rorycormac.bsky.social argue for a Dept for propaganda to defend and promote liberal democracy.
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Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
A lot of my school friends did Golf course management at uni. All went on to high paid jobs (except the one person who stayed a Golf professional).
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Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
What makes you think it's a fertility go...oh wait, nope. Yeh, I see it now.
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Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Re: eclipse, I read somewhere that Aztec Emperors would climb to the top of their temple and make an annual pledge to make the sun go round the earth, then be periodically brutally murdered when an eclipse happened for breaking that promise.
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Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Only 3 days left to register for our prize-winning MA International Relations at @openuniversity.bsky.social! This is such a strong course. Here's the link: www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate...
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MA in International Relations | Open University | F94
Study the core conceptual, empirical and theoretical debates in international relations that relate to key global challenges.
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@ghoshworld @ghoshworld.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
New from me: I run the rule over four books that cover the arguments for and against America’s use of nuclear weapons 81 years ago. bobbyghosh.substack.com/p/the-bomb-a...
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The Bomb, and the Trouble With Hindsight
Four books for a weekend when the argument over Hiroshima and Nagasaki refuses, once again, to be buried.
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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
If only the quiet collapse of our universities got as much attention as Jason Arday has. Here’s @gsoh31.bsky.social’s recent piece for Arguably on the “slow, grim dribbling away of one of Britain’s great triumphs and economic advantages”. www.arguably.uk/p/the-quiet-...
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The quiet collapse of British universities
One of our great triumphs and economic advantages is fading away
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Brilliant Maps @brilliantmaps.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
What A Circle With 5,000km Radius Centred On Paris Looks Like On A Mercator Map brilliantmaps.com/5000km-ra...
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Chilling piece by @helenwarrell.bsky.social & @christopherjm.ft.com on how teenagers are being recruited by hostile states. ‘the states view the teens they employ as disposable. There is little risk for them if the operations fail, and only upside if they succeed.’ www.ft.com/content/58da...
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The teenagers enlisted as agents of mayhem by Russia and Iran
Minors are being targeted to carry out hostile acts from Ukraine to western Europe and Israel
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Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
We'll see more and more of this, a gig economy of assassins and saboteur...
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Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
One of the most fascinating posts I've read on AI recently...worth a look.
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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
British commanders are still trained to prize the flash of intuitive brilliance. In an age of AI and autonomous systems, that instinct may prove actively regressive. The age of the genius general is over | @edstringer.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-a...
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The age of the genius general is over
British commanders are still trained to prize the flash of intuitive brilliance. In an age of AI and autonomous systems, that instinct may prove actively regressive.
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Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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Lord Of The Rings: What Can Men Do?
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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"British strategic defence reviews: The jellyfish model of policymaking" by @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social, Maeve Ryan & @anglo-japan45.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/oBPiZGd @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
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British strategic defence reviews: The jellyfish model of policymaking - Jamie Gaskarth, Maeve Ryan, William Reynolds, 2026
Britain’s strategic defence and security reviews are regularly characterised as failures. This article presents original empirical data from UK policymakers and...
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Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Said it before, anyone arguing for an early election rather than to use one of the biggest parliamentary majorities in British history for the full term to get stuff done has no business being in politics.
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Damin Toell Says Get Out
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Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I find it maddening how little the Labour government cares about higher education. I suspect it's the classic English disdain for anything intellectual. We need more Ministers from Wales, Ireland and Scotland in education posts.
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Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
RIP Kevin Keegan. The Newcastle side he built in the 90s was one of the most exciting ever assembled. Sadly my earliest football memory is him missing that header in 82, but he was one of the greats.
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Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Phew. You'd rather be watching England or France than either of these two but at least the right team won tonight.
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Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
If you're a non-football fan wondering why that wasn't a goal...so is everyone else.
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Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Come on Spain. We're all rooting for you.
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Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The 2026 3rd place play off is going in the vault of things that make me burst with patriotic pride, alongside the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony, the Gloucestershirecheese rolling comp, and the 3 pin plug
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Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
What a game! That was silly and magnificent and everything the world cup should be about. To see all the French and English players in a huddle at the end was really touching. Doesn't matter who won when a game ends 6-4. Just enjoy it
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Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The anti-English sentiment since yesterday is misplaced. Argentina are a very dirty team, borne of an abusive academy system, who behaved outrageously. England players campaigned to get kids free school meals. Good effort England and Viva Espana!
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Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Me before the England game...
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Airplane! Nervous? First Time? Iconic Scene
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