Heather Stewart is right (The G8 spirit ‘make the summit of history in 2005 seems to have disappeared, 6 July). Twenty years later, we are in a different world, facing crises and withdrawal from global responsibility.
In the first half of 2025 only, USAID Break, and the UK, France, Germany and Canada are all round about their progress budgets. Many countries in the lower income have changed from crises they do not cause, spend more than paying off debt than to care for health or education.
Although the aid aid budget is likely to increase at any time soon, the government still has the opportunity to honor it manifesto vow “To rebuild British reputation in international progress”. It has to set it a bold agenda by the debt debt and changes to global economic system, including the production of international tax system. The new one Financial for Spain’s Development Summit an unexpected opportunity. With a concerted effort to build public support, the UK government should show that international unity is not something in the past.
Romilly Greenhill
CEO, Bundle, the UK network for NGOs
About Simon Tisdall’s article (UN is our best defense against a third world war. While Trump used the ax, who would fight to save it? 6 July), the UN is likely to be weaker than before, but it is necessary as before, as internationalism is widely, stated in conversation, cooperation and unity of financial help. That our Prime Minister “has broken the budget with its help by £ 6bn, to pay nuclear bombs”, and Plan to build six new firearm factoryboasting that the defense industry can be “a machine for economic growth”, shows how it UK is to share internationalism and strengthen the UN.
The greater barbaridad of war and destruction at the person’s level of same as a large attitude of nature, causing pollution and carbon emissions on a grand scale. Who will fight to strengthen and reform UN, build global cooperation and make a future for the children of the world? We need, all of us, to an international movement of ready and care, before it is too late.
Diana Francis
Bath
