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
Speaking power to truth
Patrick Porter reviews The Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power
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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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
How should Christian organisations respond to illegal migration?
It is wrong to think that Christianity demands that we open our borders
Taylor’s Version of feminism
Taylor Swift’s marriage is less a retreat from feminism than its logical conclusion
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
The praises of a neglected vegetable
Summer calls for cold cucumbers
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
