One by one, with their heads bowed, the ‘giants’ are rising among the fields of the Memorial site, with the view out to Gold Beach in the distance.

A most poignant tribute on this 80th anniversary year.

Credit: Standing with Giants

#DDay80 #StandingWithGiants

What an excellent appointment! Lindy combines a deep experience of development policy from her DFID years with a senior insider’s view of the whole national security agenda from leading NCSC. A vital and tricky relationship in good hands.

This week’s cover story: The trauma ward by Hannah Barnes

Inside:
• Peter Ricketts: The UK must stop arming Israel
• Anoosh Chakelian: How Britain legalised crime
• Andrew Marr: Labour’s foreign policy factory

newstatesman.com/politics/healt…

Former Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office Peter Ricketts on the new paper by Lord Sedwill and Tom Fletcher on the future of British foreign policy. Thread.

Could the killing of seven World Central Kitchen staff be a turning point in the Gaza conflict and create momentum for a ceasefire? Why should the UK now suspend arms sales to Israel? Read all about it in my article The New Statesman.

Huge thanks to everyone who took part in this exceptional Changing the Guard. Garde républicaine, Scots Guards, GrenadierGuardsBand and Gendarmerie nationale, you did credit to our alliance and to 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 friendship.
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Long live the Entente Cordiale,
Vive l’amitié franco-britannique !