British strategy
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
Does Britain need more nukes?
The Integrated Review: goodbye Middle East; hello South China Sea; but still Russia first
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
A cruel choice
Today’s euthanasia bill risks sending Britain down a dark path
There is more to ethics than “#BeKind”
It is not cruel to fear the consequences of legalising assisted dying
The big picture
A story of modern Britain, a moral tale, of venality, hubris and fraud
Butterfield’s glorious vindication
Received opinion was wrong about William Butterfield’s powerful architecture
Dissertations and their discontents
PhD funding is a valid subject for debate but social media mobs are not the answer
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
Invasion literature
It couldn’t happen here. Right?
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
