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
Clothes maketh not an Iron Lady
Liz Truss’s naive doctrine of “geo-liberalism” will not survive contact with the frictions and compromises of a messy, complex world
The Realist bogeyman
Everyone likes to shoot the messenger and nobody likes to hear “I told you so”
How to end the war in Ukraine
Neither territorial concessions nor unrealistic dreams of toppling Putin can secure lasting peace
Why nuclear abolition should fail
The harsh reality is that the nuclear revolution is irreversible and makes major wars significantly less likely