Today marks ten years since the results of the Brexit vote. I remember that campaign well. I was leading the campaign for Leave locally. Harlow returned one of the strongest Leave votes anywhere in the country, placing us amongst the top twenty Leave areas in Britain. Ten years later, it is worth asking a simple…

In my professional life I spend a lot of my time thinking about the future. The purpose of scenario planning is not to predict the future; no one can really do that. It is to identify plausible futures and ensure an organisation is not caught unprepared if one of them arrives. Good organisations do this…

The Middle East is once again tilting toward open confrontation. In the wake of the G7’s failure to present a coherent position, the United States now edges closer to direct involvement in Iran. What started as firm language in the joint communiqué has now hardened into something more: aircraft carriers on the move, airspace warnings…

This morning’s headlines confirm what many of us suspected: Britain is moving Typhoon jets and Voyager refuelling aircraft into the Middle East. RAF Akrotiri is once again a hub of activity, as we position standby forces given the ongoing situation between Israel and Iran. On paper, this is not an escalation – it’s just precautionary.…

The G7 should have been an opportunity to show Western resolve. Instead, it became a show of confusion, contradictions and missed chances. As leaders gathered in Canada amid the deepening crisis between Israel and Iran, unity was tested and exposed, in some cases, as little more than stagecraft. President Trump, never one to resist a…