The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?
Always prepare for the unexpected
The instructive parallels between the Falklands and Ukraine wars
The diverse legacy of Robert Jervis
The death of Jervis is a huge loss for the study of international relations
The virtues of complaint
There’s nothing anti-feminist about female complaint
Cecilia Featherstonehaugh
Posh publisher
Piano in wartime
War poems (Somm)
BBC Verify’s Bangladesh blunder
In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
The Club of Wrong
The Club of Rome are back and dumber than ever
Allyship on easy mode
The inclusive message of Will & Harper obscures the harder questions of the “gender wars”
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
The blame, again, falls on Sinn Fein
The party responded appallingly to its press officer being accused of child sex offences
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
