Speaking & Writing
Sophia is a regular commentator on UK and international broadcast media, and has appeared on a wide range of platforms, including the BBC News and the BBC World Service, Sky News, BBC Politics Live, BBC Radio 4 (including the Today Programme, Westminster Hour, and The World Tonight), BBC Newsnight, NBC, Bloomberg, LBC, Radio National Australia, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and Euronews. Her research has been featured in leading global publications, such as The Economist and The New York Times.
Latest articles and commentary:
LSE, 'Ask the Experts: What does Trump 2.0 Mean for China'
The Strategist, 'Seven Things for Britain's AUKUS Review to Fix'
The Spectator, with Justin Bassi, 'How Labour Should Deal with China'
The Telegraph, 'Why Starmer’s great China reset risks disaster for Britain'
Recent broadcast and podcast appearances include:
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BBC News on the NATO Summit and the urgency to increase defence spending
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Regular guest on BBC Radio 4's flagship Westminster Hour programme
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The Politico Westminster Insider podcast, outlining the big foreign policy issues facing the Labour Government in the Autumn and Winter of 2024
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The Institute for Government's podcast on the US election campaign
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The Spectator's Coffee House Shots podcast on Keir Starmer's key foreign policy tests
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The Chinese Whispers podcast on UK-China relations
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Regular guest on LBC Cross Questions
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The ASPI Podcast on AUKUS, Industrial Policy and Defence Spending
Sophia has recently provided comment to articles such as:
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The New York Times, 'Russia Threat Reaches ‘Across Europe,’ U.K. Leader Tells Summit'
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The New York Times, 'UK Foreign Secretary Visits China in Bid to Reset Relations'
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The BBC, 'Gaza, Ukraine, China - the next PM faces a crowded agenda on foreign affairs'
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The Telegraph, 'Labour’s battle to convince Britain it can be trusted on defence'
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Politico, 'Will Donald Trump kill US-UK-Aussie sub defence deal?', 'What Britain's top diplomats really think of Trump', 'Inside UK Labour’s push for a US special relationship — even with Trump' and 'At NATO, the Centre-Left is Having Its Moment'
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The Sydney Morning Herald, 'One more time, with feeling: The reinvention of David Cameron'
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The New York Times, 'Rishi Sunak's Pivot Away from Global Britain'
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The Australian Financial Review, 'Why this Middle East conflict poses a danger like no other'
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Tatler Magazine, 'What in the world? How the freshly ennobled Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton leapt back onto the world stage'
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The Financial Times, 'UK presses Beijing over Hong Kong, Taiwan and Xinjiang'
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Politico, on the new UK Defence Secretary, Chinese investment, the UK-France Summit, Rishi Sunak's foreign policy, the UK-Australia pact against Chinese coercion, UK-German defence cooperation, and UK-EU defence cooperation.
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Times Higher Education, 'Citations Used by China to Seize Control of Global Science'
Sophia also writes for a wide range of newspapers and magazines.
Some examples include:
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The Spectator - 'AUKUS is a Gamechanger'
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Financial Times - 'Why the British have fallen under the spell of Australian policy'
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City AM - 'China Has Become a Bio-Police State, but Finally its Citizens Have Had Enough'
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The Spectator - 'The world will welcome the new ‘Global Britain’'
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The Spectator - 'The West is Failing to Rise to the Coronavirus Challenge'
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The Telegraph - 'Coronavirus should not stop us defining and championing Global Britain'
- New Statesman - 'We must fight the use of disinformation as an election campaign technique'
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The Independent - 'Britain has nothing to learn from Viktor Orban'
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Wall Street Journal - 'Europe’s Leaders Need a New Way of Talking About Immigration'
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The American Interest - 'The Flight 93 Temptation'
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The Atlantic - 'The Post-Brexit Paradox of ‘Global Britain’
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The New Statesman - 'The British public are unlikely to back involvement in Trump’s conflict with Iran'
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The Times of London - 'We don’t do nostalgia like we used to'
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The New Statesman - 'Brexit shows the media must wise up to the challenges of covering populism'
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Prospect Magazine - 'Older Britons don’t want to return to a “golden past”—but they do want to press the “stop” button'
Sophia also travels frequently around Europe and the United States to present her research at a range of high-level conferences, workshops and briefings.
She has spoken at institutions such as Harvard Kennedy School, Oxford University, and the London School of Economics and Political Science, and has briefed private gatherings of European Union Ambassadors, the intelligence community, international business leaders, and former Presidents and Prime Ministers. She is regularly called upon to speak at and moderate public events with Ambassadors, Ministers, former Prime Ministers and intelligence leaders, and senior leaders in the Armed Forces.