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Press Releases - current releases
UK's National Security Strategy needs radical change, says independent all-party commission of experts at ippr
30 June 2009
- Report fills vacuum in thinking on security challenges facing the UK
- 2 year independent expert review makes wide-ranging policy proposals
Government’s New Security Strategy is too complacent, says ippr Security Commission
24 June 2009
Thinktank warns proposals on cyber security are too timid and slow, on energy proposals it is too complacent, and it says little about the big issues related to defence.
Truth Commission needed to investigate ‘War on Terror’ torture allegations
19 June 2009
Allegations of the use of torture in the ‘war on terror’ must lead to investigations and prosecutions, according to an essay for the latest edition of Public Policy Research (ppr), the quarterly journal of the Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr).
Brown's international climate finance proposals are welcome but who will follow? says ippr
In reaction to the launch by the Prime Minister today (Friday 26 June) of the Government's international climate change document, which lays out the UK's approach to the international climate change summit in Copenhagen in December, Andrew Pendleton, Coordinator of leading think tank the Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr)'s Global Climate Network, said:
"Today's announcement is a brave gambit on the PM's behalf. No-one can now say that the UK Government is not taking a position of international leadership ahead of Copenhagen, but the real question will be whether other countries will follow.
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ippr in the news:
UK 'must slash defence spending'
BBC News - 30 June
Rethink defence, 'declining' UK urged
BBC News - 30 June
Defence budget crisis deepened by £1bn increase in cost of £5bn aircraft carriers
The Guardian - 30 June
Call for single security budget
Financial Times - 30 June
Defence spending unsustainable, warns think-tank
New Statesman - 30 June
Think-tank calls on Government to review Trident
Telegraph - 30 June
Ex-Defence Chiefs Suggest Military Cuts
Sky News - 30 June
Experts back calls to axe Trident
Financial Times - 28 June
Are we getting ready for the wrong war?
The Observer - Sunday 28 June
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