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Anne Applebaum: UK must respect international law
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9:01Now PlayingPulitzer Prize-winning historian and journalist Anne Applebaum spoke to the Lords Constitution Committee in Westminster to deliver a stark warning about the global breakdown of international law and the UK’s role in it.
Applebaum outlines how authoritarian regimes, and increasingly some democracies, are dismantling the legal frameworks that once held the international order together. From Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine to Israel's occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, from attacks on legal norms by China, Israel, and Hungary to Trumpism in the United States, she paints a picture of a world sliding into legal nihilism.
Crucially, Applebaum argues that the UK, long seen as a global pillar of legal integrity, is at risk of eroding that reputation by undermining treaties it has signed. Such actions, she warns, are ripple outward, fuelling a wider sense of impunity among leaders who are watching and learning from one another.
Her testimony touches on the influence of social media in fracturing public consensus, the politicisation of the judiciary, and autocracy's lack of partiality.
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