Foreign Policy
Why we might look back on Trump’s foreign policy with fondness
Joe Biden’s election signals a return to Washington’s default liberal and progressive values, especially in foreign affairs
British self-interested aid
Is it wrong that donor countries should also benefit from their development aid projects?
A tribute to Owen Harries
In memoriam
Covid is a symptom of the Age of China
British statecraft is not protecting us from an emerging autocratic superpower
Wanted: A new Labour foreign policy
It comes as no surprise that Jeremy Corbyn leapt to Russia’s defence after the Salisbury poisoning
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
John Swinney’s Isla Bryson moment?
The Scottish Government must be made to face the facts on sex and gender
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
Is public religion the new heresy?
It makes no sense to argue that faith should not inform ethical decisions
The end of art critics
The critics who are now lackeys of the art world
Libyans, Parisians and London Irish
Dry-ish, spare, clear-eyed — rare in a world of literary bloat, sentiment and overstatement
No interest in national interests
The government is not putting Britain first
An artist at the assizes
Cyril Hare was that rara avis: a circuit judge who could write like an angel
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
