Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake
Trump: the imprudent king
The President has so far achieved the opposite of what he promised
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
The case against war in Iran
The US and Israel are lunging in the dark
The fear of spheres
Analysis of Donald Trump and American world power still suffers from conceptual confusion
The world is not a morality play
Power, not rules, are key — but how much power does the US have?
War with Russia is not inevitable
Our leaders should speak less loudly and build a bigger stick
Prepare for life without America
Trump’s National Security Strategy has put Europe on notice
Realism versus Restraint
Washington’s foreign policy arises from two impulses often in conflict with each other
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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 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
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
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
Slim down the university system to save it
It has become too bloated and too expensive
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
Suicide of an author’s credibility
Matt Goodwin has done the causes that he represents no favours with his new book
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers