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Ten Flaws in UK Strategic Culture

July 2026: The UK security elite is trapped in a bubble of self-delusion. With Ben Baxendale-Smith, I outline ten flaws in the way Whitehall thinks about national security, and ten questions policymakers should be asking when they think about strategy. Download here.

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Designing the 21st Century Wartime State

May 2026: What could the British state look like in an Article 5 situation? And how does current emergency legislation need to change to prepare for that? Paul Mason warns that the UK has a weak cognitive centre of gravity. Report for the University of Exeter. Available here.