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Marshal the City to Boost UK Defence, Urges Report
A landmark report argues that the UK must mobilise its financial and professional services to strengthen national security and defence. The authors say that in the teeth of increasingly serious geopolitical threats, the government budget is insufficient by itself to fund the pace and scale of innovation needed.
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Europe Must Get Real about Defence
Europeans are in the habit of thinking that war is something that happens elsewhere. But the danger posed by Putin what Peggy Noonan calls ‘rising authoritarians’ everywhere is real – and the clock is ticking.
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Comms Failure is a Threat to Space Ambitions
Good space communication is about explaining what you do and why that matters – in language that doesn’t require a PhD to comprehend. Investors don’t back what they don’t get, policymakers don’t defend what they can’t explain. And the public doesn’t throw its support behind something that rouses no emotion.
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