Clifford Bates
Clifford Bates is University Professor in the American Studies Center at Warsaw University in Warsaw Poland
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
Royals in an online age
Can the royal mystique survive the glare of modern media?
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
Israel, the ICJ and the plausibility of genocide
Commentators are misunderstanding the provisional measures of the International Court of Justice
Magic moments
A bomb dropped into the frightful world of mid-Victorian musical entertainment
The war on women’s spaces
Roxanne Tickle’s legal triumph is nothing to giggle at
The NHS need not depend on immigration
The shortage of British trainees is the result of a political choice