Blighty newsletter: When soft power goes wrong

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Blighty newsletter: When soft power goes wrong

Feb 25th 2025

This is the introduction to Blighty, a weekly, subscriber-only newsletter in which our correspondents turn their gaze on the latest developments in Britain.

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Blighty newsletter: When soft power goes wrong

Blighty newsletter: When soft power goes wrong

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How Britons became happy hawks on Russia

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