Everyone lost in the Battle of the Oval Office
Trump, Vance and Zelensky erred and Xi and Putin will have smiled
Would earlier escalation have stopped Russia?
Hawkish counterfactuals tell us little about the world as it is
Has the Chagos Islands deal killed progressive realism?
Keir Starmer’s foreign policy concept is on the rocks already
Is this the end of Israel?
Those who now declare Israel’s “strategic defeat” aren’t paying enough attention
International courts are largely irrelevant
An institutional spider’s web cannot stop a geopolitical elephant
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
Getting the measure of the Russian bear
A defensive concern under the right conditions can morph into a warrant for brutal expansionism
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
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
Dear Prudence
A reflection on the Tory Party’s historic suspicion of interventionism
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
The green myth
Tom, Chris and Graham explore our April edition
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
The Tobacco and Vapes Bill is a masterclass in self-defeat
Labour’s tobacco crackdown will fuel crime, hurt retailers, and push smokers towards worse habits
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground