American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions
The new age of empires
The world faces a new reality: three predatory imperial powers in Russia, China and the USA
Thangam Debbonaire and the curse of slop history
History is a cudgel in the hands of opportunistic ideologues
Hungary: treading a fine line
Can it stay equidistant from the great powers while maintaining trade connectivity?
Winning the culture war in the American South
American conservatives have tried a new technique to team the statue-toppling social justice warriors dominating universities
Putin and the new global order
An older worldview makes a triumphant return, and splits the American right
What happened to British realpolitik?
Britain needs strategic realism and foresight, and most importantly, new thought leaders
That got real old real fast
At the National Conservatism Conference in Orlando, Florida
The rise and fall of the China Question
Balance China realistically: let her overstretch and bleed
Pro-imperial truths of the old world
This magnificent one volume history details the tumultuous days of the Indian army in the jungles of Burma
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
Warm home, wrong decision
Ministers are once again choosing the most politically convenient response to rising energy costs, not the most effective one
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
The green myth
Tom, Chris and Graham explore our April edition