Damien Phillips
Damien Phillips is a Fellow of The Cobden Centre, and a specialist in international affairs and political economy. Follow him at @Damien_Phillips
The Telegraph takeover is a security threat
The UAE is heavily involved with our geopolitical rivals — so why are we letting them buy a British newspaper?
Meloni is no fascist
Media hysteria distorts our understanding of European politics
Soft power superpower?
It’s easy to mock, but British influence is real — and a potent tool for good
Every story tells a picture
Convenient clichés make for poor foreign policy
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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
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history
Not exiles, but stayers
White South Africans are not abandoning their home
Critical briefing: Unite the Kingdom
What you need to know about the Unite the Kingdom march on May 16
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
Won over by a stately Italian saga
A fictional Italian president and a cinema spin-off
Low energy
Rachel Reeves and Mel Stride are inconsistent while Reform are invisible
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Carry on, matron
The crisis in nursing can be reversed by a return to Florence Nightingale’s vision of vocation and a rebuilt hierarchy on the wards
