nature of british power now and its continued reach particularly through the work of my colleague tim coles who i'm kind of representing really today britain's role is still really significant it's still a member of the g seven it's still a member of the un security. number of the un security council it still as well in terms of the nefarious activity is still one of the world's largest arms dealers for example but then in addition to that part of what tim coles work has discovered is that british involvement as a military force in terms of training arming supplying and in other ways assisting dictatorships and rather unpleasant insurgencies around the world is much greater than anyone who previously has much greater than people have put together until has mainly done this through looking at very very boring government documents that no one else can be bothered to read. to find that british british military involvement exists in places like bangladesh and sri lanka and papua and oman and of course other more slightly more obvious places like saudi arabia but if you were to ask most people w