Doug Stokes
Professor Doug Stokes is Professor of International Security and Strategy at Modul University Vienna, and a Senior Fellow at the Danube Institute. His most recent book is Against Decolonisation (2023), and his next book, Realism or Ruin: Escaping Europe’s Post-Historical Fantasy, will be published in 2028. He tweets at @profdws
Britain’s dangerous moment
Protest, pandemic and recession are a reminder of the fine line between civility and chaos
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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.
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
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
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
The sickness of Sickfluencers
Social media and AI are enabling the exploitation of our benefits system
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
The American chaos machine
The United States’s current aggressive expansionism and domestic strife are an intrinsic part of its national character
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
Crushing the real progressives
The Islamic Republic of Iran, now under fire from the demonic West, is the most progressive society on earth
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
