Patrick Porter
Patrick Porter is Professor of International Security at the University of Birmingham and Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute. He also tweets at @PatPorter76
Looking back: WWIII remembered
This was not supposed to happen. Not in the year 2029. A nuclear war, millions dead, firestorms, irradiated cities. How did we get here?
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
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
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
The case against Project Spire
The Church of England should abandon this misleading and expensive exercise in virtue signalling
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
The Islamic identity crisis
V.S. Naipaul was prophetic on the struggles between Islam and modernity
Fair vs free elections
The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Gender self-ID was never the law
Barrister Akua Reindorf KC speaks about the controversial trans guidance the government is so loath to implement
Grin and bear it
Carelessness and frivolity sabotage any attempt at a serious discussion
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
