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Choosing sea slugs over human beings: Miliband’s ethical foreign policy?

04/04/2010 By Peter Harris

By Peter Harris / @ChagosUK When Robin Cook outlined New Labour's plan for an "ethical foreign policy" back in 1997, I very much doubt that working to exclude an indigenous people from their homeland was what he had in mind. Nevertheless…

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Let them return: human rights should be Gordon’s legacy in Chagos

04/02/2010 By Peter Harris

By Peter Harris / @ChagosUK Yesterday's post from Kieran Roberts, entitled Gordon's Great Barrier Reef, correctly argued that a marine protected area (MPA) in the Chagos islands offered Labour a chance to fortify its environmental legacy…