Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
Donald Trump is endangering US alliances
The US should wind down its commitments in Europe without making enemies
Stay cool, Mr Trump
The US need not fear losing influence in the Middle East to Moscow or Beijing
Trump’s tough talk won’t end war in Ukraine
Putin has too much to lose to be intimidated
Iran: deal or devastation?
Donald Trump’s dealings with Tehran veer between negotiation and sabre-rattling
The US must resolve its Ukrainian contradiction
Avoiding dialogue with Russia is reckless folly
War of attrition
The conflict in Ukraine may yet end in stalemate
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The Symphony’s Indian summer
Imagine hearing a symphony for the first time
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
The American chaos machine
The United States’s current aggressive expansionism and domestic strife are an intrinsic part of its national character
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
The dark side of the White House
As in ancient Rome, power politics are always a promising arena for drama
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways
The generation delusion
Chris Bayliss and Henry Hill are joined by the Reverend Marcus Walker to discuss intergenerational responsibility
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Denial or confession?
Mandelson is a true prince of the logocracy, whose greatest skill was, and still is, the emptying of language of fixed meaning