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Whether it's the fiscal boon awarded to the spirits market through this week's Autumn Budget statement from Chancellor Rishi Sunak or just a buzz for Halloween but spirits are the top hitters for new products this week.

Gin brand Whitley Neill is launching its first ever TV advert as part of a wider £5m campaign. The advert will debut today and run until mid-December,

Blue Raspberry Russian Vodka' - Artisanal Russian vodka brand JJ Whitley has added a ‘Blue Raspberry Russian Vodka’ to its line of premium offerings, which already inc...

US Studies Centre CEO Simon Jackman says there is no denying that vaccine diplomacy is one of the many factors being deployed in the great power rivalry between the US and China. World leaders are currently meeting in the United Kingdom for the G7 summit. President Biden has pledged to provide 500 million vaccines to the world. China too has announced it will support surrounding nations with vaccines. “The COVAX initiative formed a big talking point and no doubt will feature prominently in th...

Australia and the United States are both calling for an end to the conflict in the Gaza Strip but America has the “historical and ongoing leverage” to be able to end the clashes, according to US Studies Centre CEO Simon Jackman. “While an expression from Australia is obviously welcome and appropriate the real big actor is the United States, the historical and ongoing leverage it has with regards to Israel and to a lesser extent Palestine as well,” he told Sky News. Mr Jackman said Ameri...

Liz Cheney was removed from her position in Congress because “she was running a different narrative” than the Republicans want to push, according to US Studies Centre CEO Simon Jackman. “What I think you’re seeing is an effort to consolidate the Republican Party (for) what’s going to be their strategy for those 2022 elections,” he told Sky News. “The Republicans are going to be thinking of this base election, Democrat turnout is not going to be as high as it was when the presidenc...

President Joe Biden’s ambitious climate plan to halve the US emissions by 2030 may not have the support from Congress it needs “to match the aspiration” of what it is trying to achieve, according to US Studies Centre CEO Simon Jackman. “To reach the ambition he even laid out for the 2030 target he needs Congress to act, I don’t know if the appetite is there in Congress to match the aspiration he talked about in the global climate summit,” he told Sky News. “Something is going to h...

Login Bidens spending plans are the biggest expansion of the state since the 1960s30/04/2021|5min President Joe Biden has had a “remarkable 100 days” as he announces massive spending to fund social reform like past President Lyndon Baines Johnson, according to US Studies Centre CEO Simon Jackman. “Increasingly I’m looking (at) historical analogues, Lyndon Johnson, Dwight Eisenhower, in terms of the rallying of the nation around a grand purpose and that purpose is, as Biden said in that ...

US border surge crisis is a domestic issue not going well for Biden30/04/2021|8min The migrant surge at the US-Mexico border is a “domestic issue that isn’t going well” for President Joe Biden as protesters interrupted a Georgia rally to call for the closure for detention centres, according to US Studies Centre CEO Simon Jackman. “You saw at the rally the cross pressure, the left of the Democratic base are fired up about a lot of issues but this is one of them and they really want a bi...

Prime Minster Scott Morrison’s speech at the virtual US-hosted climate summit was in line with the government's strategy of “accentuating the positive” of Australia’s climate policy, says US Studies Centre CEO Simon Jackman. Mr Jackman said this involved saying “the fact Australia didn’t leave" the Paris or Kyoto climate agreements but was “leaving the door for further announcements” for the Glasgow summit later this year. “It was about what I expected from the Austr...