Olivia O’Sullivan, Director of the UK in the World Programme at Chatham House, has over a decade of experience in international development and foreign policy in the UK government. She has worked in the Department for International Development, Cabinet Office, and led the Open Innovation Team's foreign policy efforts. Her work includes managing the 2021 Integrated Review's expert engagement and the UK's response to the Rohingya refugee crisis.
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The French protests that are spreading over Europe are not receiving proper attention. The explanation that students all over France, with the disturbances spreading into Italy and Belgium, are burning down historic buildings and looting businesses because they are dissatisfied
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It is a mark of the significance of this general election that a result predicted for months still brings with it a sense of uncertainty about what will follow. On paper, there
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