Defence
NATO’s Ankara moment
NATO’s middle powers must not depend so heavily on the USA
An indefensible defence policy
Why the country’s strategic ambitions are incompatible with our welfare bill
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
A new course for Cuba
The United States should give up its futile and arrogant dreams of regime change
NATO needs the Germans to be up
European defence depends on a stronger Germany
British foreign policy must serve British interests
It is time to put aside legalistic and moralistic nonsense and focus on what is best for Britain
Trump goes to war
The world is facing danger and mystery as America and Israel go to war with Iran
Putting British defence on an even keel
Huzzah for the bulwarks of England
It’s time Britain moved to warfighting readiness
War-readiness is necessary for protecting our democracy
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Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Israel does not run U.S. foreign policy
There is nothing wrong with questioning foreign influence — but that influence has been overstated
Ancient bones of contention
The burgeoning and irregulated market for dinosaur skeletons
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
Sex, success and failure
Sarah Ditum talks
with songwriter
Neil Hannon of The
Divine Comedy
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Fisticuffs over the fourth movement
When did classical music become so disturbingly polite?
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do