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Conflict prevention and peacebuilding strategy needed, Bishop of Bristol tells peers Her final speech in the House of Lords focused on ‘the ethics of international relations’ #defencereview #houseoflords #peacebuilding churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2025/…
Conflict prevention and peacebuilding strategy needed, Bishop of Bristol tells peers

Her final speech in the House of Lords focused on ‘the ethics of international relations’

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RoslynByfield
RoslynByfield @RoslynByfield ·
I find Jackie Smith rather annoying, just trotting out a script, but think she's right about this: the media has done us a disservice on #DefenceReview as when I read the detail I was seriously impressed with the number of experts contributing to it. #bbcaq
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Tom Drysdale
Tom Drysdale @tozdee57 ·
If nuclear weapons are such an effective deterrent, why don't the #UK Government, as part of their #defencereview, not just create one huge, powerful, world destroying bomb? No-one would mess with them then, & they'd save a shitload of cash!
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DAMNOCRACY
DAMNOCRACY @DAMNOCRACYART ·
They want your kids to fight their war. The rich and powerful won’t be on the frontlines—but they’ll send working-class youth to die for their interests. £80B for war prep, but nothing for peace, housing, or the NHS. Hell no. We won’t go #DefenceReview #StarmerLies #PMQs #C4News
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Jean Pascal Zanders
Jean Pascal Zanders @JPZanders ·
#ChemicalWeapons #BiologicalWeapons #DefenceReview #UK Putin threat of biological attack on UK streets: Novichok poisonings in Salisbury were 'wake-up call' standard.co.uk/news/politics/… [...] Mr Healey stressed that the Strategic Defence Review had recognised this biological and chemical weapons threat. “While the Ukraine conflict has temporarily degraded Russian conventional land forces, the overall modernisation and expansion of its armed forces means it will pose an enduring threat in key areas such as space, cyberspace, information operations, undersea warfare, and chemical and biological weapons,” the SDR states. It adds that the new Defence Research and Evaluation centre’s internal research should “robustly prioritise a small number of national security issues” adding: “Chemical and biological defence. This is the essential and urgent activity.” [...]
Putin biological threat to UK: Salisbury Novichok poisonings were 'wake-up call'

The Novichok poisonings in Salisbury were a “wake-up call” to the threat from Vladimir Putin’s Russia of a chemical or biological attack on Britain’s streets, says Defence Secretary John Healey.

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