Foreign Policy
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
Donald Trump is a wake-up call for Europe
We cannot complacently depend on the US
Now’s your time, House of Lords
The upper house must prove its worth by opposing the shabby Chagos Islands deal
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn, European
Where does shitposting end and statesmanship begin?
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
The West should stop indulging delusions on Ukraine
Ukraine cannot achieve its maximal goals
Britain must get real on foreign policy
Dim clichés and childish chest-beating are not going to help us
For Heaven’s sake, not Robert Jenrick
He’s the ideal candidate if you want the Conservatives to lose
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
The Bezos behemoth
Behind the logistics miracle are some troubling stories
Athenian ambrosia
Savour a culinary renaissance in Greece
Keep prisoners of war off social media
Social media platforms are incentivising war crimes
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
Non-euclidean Toryism
The Conservative Party appears somewhat lost
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
World Government or Peoples’ Governments?
As the nation state system falters, we are faced with a choice between centre and periphery
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
