#FCDO

Ian Mitchell

EconMitch

UK 2020 aid stats released this morning, a few immediate observations:1. UK met the 0.7% target in 2020It spent £14.5bn, down £712m (-4.7%) in line with fall in national income

Sam Bowman

s8mb

Cutting the aid budget is a bad idea – I say this as a long time sceptic of *development* aid, and admirer of the great PT Bauer, one of the

Beyond Gender

Beyond__Gender

Friday Night Session Scholarship 103Title: Scholarship and funding opportunities for international students.Writer and Guest: Scholar @Okafor_ScINSTRUCTIONS-Read the thread.- Drop your questions under the thread. It will be answered.-Retwee

Gregory Messenger

gmssngr

This week was my last as a seconded academic working in the Foreign Office as an AHRC-ESRC-FCO KE fellow. Some reflections on working as an academic in government... (imagine a

Kate Ferguson

WordsAreDeeds

It's been a while since I did a big thread on UK atrocity prevention but buckle up cos this is a long one. I've caught on on Tuesday's @CommonsForeign evidence

Romilly Greenhill

romilly_one

Today’s release of Stats for International Development for 2019 give an interesting, and slightly worrying, snapshot of the priorities for the Government on #UKaid (1/9) The big headlines are: more

Kate Ferguson

WordsAreDeeds

After all these months, I did not see this coming before the IR... BUT here's my hot take 1. What was billed as a review of the UK's Protection of

Chinese Embassy in UK

ChineseEmbinUK

The Chinese Embassy issued a statement strongly condemning the despicable acts of “Hong Kong independence” rioters who burnt the national flag and assaulted the Embassy building. Click below to read

Prof Laura Hammond

lhammondsoas

The other has dropped (or another in the): Research Professional - Dominic Raab cuts foreign office R&D spending by £144m https://shar.es/aoRRh6 (it's behind a paywall, so if you can't

Rishi Sunak

RishiSunak

1/ Today’s Spending Review delivers on the priorities of the British people.This thread covers 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗸𝗲𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 from Departments across Government. #S

vanessa beeley

VanessaBeeley

In response to the @BBC defamation campaign in which @chloehadj is suggesting that I am a "Russian agent", a claim now amplified by #Syria "regime change" promoter, Michael Weiss -

Kirsty McNeill

kirstyjmcneill

A thread for everybody interested in whether @BorisJohnson and @RishiSunak are intent on breaking a manifesto promise from the @Conservatives to both the country and some of the poorest people