Chagos Islands
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
The China panic and the Indian fact
The debate over the Chagos Islands has been clouded by fantasy about Beijing, obscuring the far more consequential role of New Delhi
The Chagos Islands deal is even worse than it looks
It could have horrific environmental consequences
Why can’t we let the Chagossians go home?
The majority of the displaced islanders remain loyal to the Crown and still hope to return
Atoll protected
Britain has a rock solid defence against the shifty Chagos giveaway
Hollow “decolonisation”
Chagossian exiles in Crawley are not cheering the annexation of their homeland by Mauritius
Starmer’s Chagos slur
Guilt by association is just stupid politics
Chagone
A serious party of the Right would promise to reverse the Chagos deal and jail those involved
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From Hinkley Point to Huawei, we have no idea how to deal with Beijing
How Kemi can improve at PMQs
The Tory leader neither seems to enjoy, nor prepare for the weekly clash
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