Brendan Simms
Brendan Simms is Director of the Centre for Geopolitics at the University of Cambridge.
How to halt the continental drift
Where has “Europe” come from over the past 30 years and where is it heading?
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Racing in revolt
The sport continues along a path towards its collapse, spurning any opportunity for reform
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
Deciphering the royal dress code
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding
Women should not have to apologise for their rights
There is nothing cruel about women wanting single-sex spaces
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
Taylor’s Version of feminism
Taylor Swift’s marriage is less a retreat from feminism than its logical conclusion
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
