The West’s Russia Crisis
Patrick Porter talks about the implications of invasion for the West
Decoloniser heal thyself
Decolonisation is a new form of Western elitism that risks turning campuses into ideological bootcamps
The noise before defeat
Even a good retreat would not have rescued a bad war
Rough statecraft
Biden’s Machiavellian moment
China: The rules of engagement
How should America deal with a newly aggressive and expansionist Beijing?
Staying out is the hard part
There are no dominoes to fall in Afghanistan
Power plays
The Western powers should beware making belligerent threats they cannot back up
Pounding to nothing
Patrick Porter reviews The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, by John Bolton
Afghanistan and the lies we tell ourselves
The leaked “Afghanistan Papers” tell a story of cover-ups at every level of America’s longest war. But can we really expect anything different?
Speaking power to truth
Patrick Porter reviews The Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power
Schrödinger’s sex binary
We have to resist the mass gaslighting of women and girls
A labour of love
We are all historians of our own here and now
Nesta, I detest ya
An engine of innovation has become a puddle of inanity
Tough on smoking, tough on alternatives to smoking
We should give smokers healthier options, not no options
The end of “Anglo-Saxon”?
The rebranding of Anglo-Saxon England is senseless and silly
Two sides of the weird frontier
The archly neutral now stands on the margins, looking out at a society of fear and outrage
Nature neglected
In this election green policy only get airtime when it can be linked to jobs
X scandal
The fault lay in the dirty minds of the viewers, he said
The new Ottomans
The fall and rise of Istanbul under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Word pictures at a gallery
Paintings are appreciated best when there are few people around to spoil the view
This is what feminism looks like
“Gender critical” feminists have represented the best of feminism
