Foreign Affairs
Getting the measure of the Russian bear
A defensive concern under the right conditions can morph into a warrant for brutal expansionism
The sorry strategy
Reparations are a deeply dangerous strategy in the carnivorous world of geopolitics
Procedural Man
The Process is good, the Process is correct, no matter what, trust the Process
On the King’s Road to ruin
The decline of commerce on Chelsea’s celebrated street is a worrying sign for London
A leader who loved Japan
How Shinzo Abe and his country resisted stagnation
Soft power superpower?
It’s easy to mock, but British influence is real — and a potent tool for good
The West’s Russia Crisis
Patrick Porter talks about the implications of invasion for the West
Australia first
What are we supposed to fight for in the Pacific? Is it for Australia or for the sake of US pre-eminence?
The noise before defeat
Even a good retreat would not have rescued a bad war
The Second Coming of George W. Bush
The public image of the 43rd President of the United States has undergone a surprising revival
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
Not a dull phrase
Ethel Smyth: 2nd sonata &c (Delphian)
We have to rebalance civil society
To influence power, we must organise
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
Marianna in the trenches
She wants to dive into the murky depths of social media, but her microphone can only scratch the surface
Iranian women deserve more support
Self-styled internationalists are failing them
Pandæmonium
Better to reign in hell than serve in government
William Warham
A champion of the English Church unfairly eclipsed by his great rivals Wolsey, Cranmer and Cromwell
The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
