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Dr Al Pinkerton talks about the effect of social media in the UK & US elections

Published: Jan. 20, 2020, 7:34 p.m.

Dr Alasdair Pinkerton, a senior lecturer at Royal Holloway, a Geopolitics expert and an advisor to 10 Downing Street on the Commonwealth.\n\nHis future-looking PhD research explores the issues of \u2018Brexit\u2019 and \u2018heritage\u2019, and the implications for the UK\u2019s relationship with the Overseas Territories and the wider Commonwealth \u2013 not least as the UK seeks to narrate itself as \u2018Global Britain\u2019.\n\nWe talked about the implications of post-Brexit on business, trade deals and Boris' desire for an Empire 2.0