Robert Skidelsky
Professor Lord Robert Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at Warwick University and author of an award-winning biography of John Maynard Keynes. He comments regularly on Russian and international politics.
Could war in Ukraine have been avoided?
Robert Skidelsky argues that the West is partly to blame and John Lough argues that it is not
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Vote Green to end antisemitism
Critics have been trying to twist their leaders’ words to resemble what they actually said
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Making the case for liberalism
Wooldridge’s polemic draws together the disparate traditions of liberal thought and action
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
The asylum seeker will see you now
We should not legitimise illegal migration and its damaging effects
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
We need a loud revival
The dream of a “quiet revival” always misunderstood the problem faced by British Christians
Farewell to an intellectual giant
Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
Oxbridge’s academic standards
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
Unreadable red bile
This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous
