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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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
Form your battalions!
France, for all its flaws, still converts military spending into power — Britain does not
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
