TOM SYKES
Tom Sykes has reported on the Philippines for Private Eye, Monocle, Red Pepper, Morning Star and Southeast Asia Globe. His new book, Imagining Manila: Literature, Empire and Orientalism is published by Bloomsbury/IB Tauris. He is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Portsmouth.
Arming the Philippines: It’s a Duterte job, but does Britain have to do it?
Thousands of people have been killed in the Philippines under President Rodrigo Duterte, but the UK has massively increased arms exports to his authoritarian regime and is prioritising trade and investment with the country — partly as a post-Brexit bulwark against China.