Tony Brenton
Sir Tony Brenton was British Ambassador to Russia 2004-2008
Did the West provoke Russia?
Tony Brenton argues that it did and Lawrence Freedman argues that it did not
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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
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact
The Mexican baby business
In UK courts, parental orders for children born overseas outnumber those born to surrogates here
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
How to save your parish church
Be the Church you want to see in the world
The case against Project Spire
The Church of England should abandon this misleading and expensive exercise in virtue signalling
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
