Sam Bidwell
Biography
Publications
Sam Bidwell is the founder and Director of the Centre for Commonwealth Affairs, a newly established London-based think-tank working with partners across the Commonwealth to craft actionable pan-Commonwealth policy. Sam is a graduate at the University of Cambridge, where he achieved an LLB, with a focus on constitutional, public, and international law.
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Opportunity lost with the Commonwealth Games
With alternative cities jumping at the chance to host the orphaned Games, has Victoria scored an own goal?
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Australia: The lynchpin of a modernised Commonwealth
A network of middle powers and small states supporting one another. What’s not to like?