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CNA
3 days ago
- Business
- CNA
Non-geopolitical factors have led to 'less than ideal' security responses in Asia Pacific: IISS
From domestic politics to the interdependence of economies -- a new report has warned that these non-geopolitical factors have often led to "less than ideal" responses on the security front in the Asia Pacific. The regional security assessment released by London-based think-tank International Institute of Strategic Studies comes ahead of the Shangri-la Dialogue, a key annual defence gathering in Singapore this weekend. Olivia Siong shares what some of these factors are and their impact on the region.
Times
18-05-2025
- Politics
- Times
Reform Scotland changes name to avoid Nigel Farage connection
A political think tank has 'regretfully' been forced to rebrand after being repeatedly confused with Nigel Farage's Reform UK party. Reform Scotland was founded in 2008 but the growing success of Farage's right-wing party throughout the UK has prompted a name-change to Enlighten. Chris Deerin, the former journalist who heads the think tank, said organisations contacted by Reform Scotland were increasingly mixing up the two. 'Reform UK had a very good general election, ended up with five MPs, and, as we know from the polls, they are going to do quite well next year at the Holyrood election,' Deerin said. 'And we started to find there was confusion arising when we were speaking to people and introducing ourselves. 'As we became aware that their prospects
Times
15-05-2025
- Politics
- Times
Leaving the ECHR can become Badenoch's big cause
In a sun-kissed, cosy Westminster attic this week, a firing pistol went off on the next general election. Try not to feel too exhausted, given that polling day is likely to be a long four years away. But what was debated in the offices of Policy Exchange, the venerable think tank, will matter greatly come 2028-29. With the launch of its new commission, The Future of Human Rights Law, serious work is under way on what is likely to be a defining issue in the next campaign. Immigration, in case you hadn't noticed, has become such a vast problem for successive governments that it is no longer just about controlling borders. It is rapidly coming to define what makes a competent administration. Sir Keir Starmer
Wall Street Journal
13-05-2025
- Business
- Wall Street Journal
The GOP's Work for Welfare Advance
The House's big, beautiful budget bill is bigger than it is beautiful, so it's worth noting the better parts of the draft. The House Agriculture Committee is moving on a modest welfare reform in food stamps that will resuscitate the program's connection with work. Americans who manage to sift through the media distortions will approve. By one think-tank estimate, nearly 13 million able-bodied adults were on food stamps in 2022, and the benefit covers some 12% of the U.S. population. People are supposed to work as a condition of benefits, but millions don't. Live in California? The Biden Administration in January waived the program's work requirement in the entire state for two years. The House bill cracks down on these waiver abuses.
Washington Post
12-05-2025
- Health
- Washington Post
Digging into the math of a study attacking the safety of the abortion pill
The Ethics and Public Policy Center, a think tank that says it opposes 'the extreme progressive agenda while building consensus of conservatives,' recently issued a report on a key abortion medication, mifepristone, that it says raises questions about its safety. After analyzing insurance claims for more than 865,000 prescribed mifepristone abortions, the group said it had determined that almost 11 percent of women experienced a 'serious adverse event,' much higher than an overall 0.5 percent rate found in clinical studies.
