John Lough
John Lough is an associate fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme of Chatham House and a former NATO representative based in Moscow.
Could war in Ukraine have been avoided?
Robert Skidelsky argues that the West is partly to blame and John Lough argues that it is not
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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
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid
Unreadable red bile
This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
Deciphering the royal dress code
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding
