What started off as a year of cautious optimism turned into an incredibly difficult one for international development in the world of UK politics. Paul Abernethy takes us through a seesaw year, with aid cuts, political polarisation and party conference seasons, before looking ahead to 2026.
It’s time to dust off the rosettes, it’s party conference seasons. Here are all the tips and events you’ll need to make the most of each conference from our public affairs manager Paul Abernethy.
It has now been a year since the 2024 race riots erupted across the UK, a powerful and painful reminder of the racial injustice that continues to shape our society. As we reflect, we must ask ourselves: what has really shifted in the past 12 months?
While we await the government’s decisions on the much larger cuts to come – with an accompanying impact assessment– later this year, the Annual Report gives us a first look at where the cuts will hit hardest and paints a bleak picture.
Yesterday, Tuesday 22 July, the Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) released its Annual Report & Accounts for 2024–25 and…
Last week, Bond and more than 20 of our members, travelled to Seville alongside government, UN, global civil society and business representatives for the Fourth International Financing for Development Conference (FfD4). Here, Alex Farley, Sandra Martinsone and our members take us through the events of the conference.
The ONE Campaign recently took preliminary legal steps to challenge the government’s decision to slash Britain’s international aid budget to 0.3%. While they are more sure than ever about the justice of their argument, they’ve decided not to go to court to seek judicial review. Here’s why.
There was much hope within the conflict prevention community and beyond that the new UK National Security Strategy (NSS) – published last week – could be a much more comprehensive response to the international security environment, but the gulf between the new UK NSS and this vision couldn’t be bigger.
