Foreign Policy
Donald Trump is a wake-up call for Europe
We cannot complacently depend on the US
Now’s your time, House of Lords
The upper house must prove its worth by opposing the shabby Chagos Islands deal
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn, European
Where does shitposting end and statesmanship begin?
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
The West should stop indulging delusions on Ukraine
Ukraine cannot achieve its maximal goals
Britain must get real on foreign policy
Dim clichés and childish chest-beating are not going to help us
Doing something can be worse than doing nothing
The Gaza pier and the failings of a “do something” foreign policy
The Scullionbait Awards for Reporting Merit
Articles with no opposing quotes, criticism, or trace of so-called “balance”
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
An open letter against assisted dying
118 academics oppose the Leadbeater Bill
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
Vorsprung durch Technik R.I.P.
The vaunted German model really is kaput — bust
Twitter has always been toxic
Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness
The same old song
A reboot of nineties favourite Le Caprice is more museum than restaurant
Izzy Hardcastle
Ornament of the book-world
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
Do our leaders understand the power grid at all?
It seems as if basic facts are being completely ignored
