Liberal myths of the “good old ways”
Donald Trump’s foreign policy is not so very different from the Democrats’ imagined golden age of American leadership
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
The far enemy
The motivations for the 9/11 attacks are still misunderstood and moralised
Ukraine’s dangerous friends
The embattled nation must resist the siren song of possible NATO membership
Dear Keir, get real
Instead of announcing grand new doctrines, it’s time for a very British realism
We’re all living in America
Britain’s elite is obsessed with Trump and the States, when it needs to concentrate on the Home Front
The fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
The man who loved power
Henry Kissinger loved to wield power more than he respected its implications
Why Russia is still in business
Poor countries are focused on food and fuel, not black-listing Moscow over the Ukraine war