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David Miliband: If you pull up the anchor in choppy seas, the boat rocks backward and forward, and the passengers get seasick.

On the recordJune 19, 2026
If you pull up the anchor in choppy seas, the boat rocks backward and forward, and the passengers get seasick.
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David Miliband

Editor's note · Context

Miliband's metaphor about the global humanitarian system.

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