{"id":17054,"date":"2026-09-12T05:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T05:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/2026\/09\/12\/call-it-the-miliband-doctrine-lets-hope-the-new-israeli-settlement-boycott-is-just-the-start-steve-bloomfield\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T05:00:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T05:00:30","slug":"call-it-the-miliband-doctrine-lets-hope-the-new-israeli-settlement-boycott-is-just-the-start-steve-bloomfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/2026\/09\/12\/call-it-the-miliband-doctrine-lets-hope-the-new-israeli-settlement-boycott-is-just-the-start-steve-bloomfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Call it the Miliband doctrine. Let\u2019s hope the new Israeli settlement boycott is just the start | Steve Bloomfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s move suggests that, even in the age of Trump, Britain will once again have an \u2018ethical dimension\u2019 to its foreign policy. That\u2019s good for the world Almost 30 years ago, the Labour titan Robin Cook announced his arrival at the Foreign Office by laying out what would become described as an \u201cethical foreign policy\u201d. The UK, he said, \u201cmust support the demands of other peoples for the democratic rights on which we insist for ourselves\u201d. Human rights would be \u201cat the heart of our foreign policy\u201d.In the 25 years since Cook was demoted, Britain has had a further 14 foreign secretaries \u2013 including seven in the past six years \u2013 few of whom can claim to have placed progressive ideals at the heart of their actions.<\/p>\n<p>Ed Miliband\u2019s speech on Tuesday outlining the UK\u2019s decision to impose economic sanctions on Israeli settlements in the West Bank \u2013 and unveiling the international coalition he has built to support it \u2013 suggests that Cook may finally have a successor.Steve Bloomfield is the former international editor of the Observer and a previous winner of the Orwell prize Continue reading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s move suggests that, even in the age of Trump, Britain will once again have an \u2018ethical dimension\u2019 to its foreign policy. That\u2019s good for the world Almost 30 years ago, the Labour titan\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}