Foreign Policy
Don’t make Iran the new Ukraine
American hawks are pushing for war with Tehran
Remembering Iraq
We still feel the consequences of that disastrous war
How to avoid the Third World War
Tucker marries an English School insight with the thought of two giants of philosophy
Serious choices
We must make them soon
Why the liberal hawks rule the roost
Get ready for the next idiot crusade
Close the Confucius Institutes
Britain should not be enabling Chinese soft power
Clothes maketh not an Iron Lady
Liz Truss’s naive doctrine of “geo-liberalism” will not survive contact with the frictions and compromises of a messy, complex world
Bromides of the expert class
Question intellectual authority
Nazi foreign policy — did Hitler know what he was doing?
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss how Nazi foreign policy differed from the traditional objectives of German nationalism
The West’s self-defeating sanctions
America and its allies are committing geo-political suicide for no discernible gain
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Bring back literary vendettas
Grub Street thrived when
there was an “establishment”,
movements and feuds
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Eine kleine Berlinermusik
Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! (Bis); Love Maps (TXYart)
The delusions of the DCMS
The establishment approach to the internet is marked by paranoia and control
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future