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
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
Sean Scully in France
He’s been showered with honours and awards — yet plenty of people can’t stand his work
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
Still knocking on the door
For all the promises, subpostmasters are still waiting for compensation
An open letter against assisted dying
118 academics oppose the Leadbeater Bill
Rewiring the state
Kemi Badenoch has a plan, though what it involves is anyone’s guess
Getting the measure of the Russian bear
A defensive concern under the right conditions can morph into a warrant for brutal expansionism
The stress myth
Your emotions are not an illness
