Lawrence Freedman
Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman is Emeritus Professor of War Studies at King's College London. He is the author of Ukraine and the Art of Strategy (Oxford University Press, 2019).
Did the West provoke Russia?
Tony Brenton argues that it did and Lawrence Freedman argues that it did not
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
The right-wing case for social media
X and other platforms can be vital sources of unfashionable information and dissenting opinions
One deuce of a decider
This is it, when you look into the abyss and the abyss looks back into you
A bloodless account of blood-soaked times
Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece by Adrian Goldsworthy
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
