Foreign Policy
The return of realism
There is a new tone to foreign policy debate
Espionage and the presumption of innocence
Even alleged Chinese spies are innocent till proven guilty
What is geopolitics?
The origins of a contested concept
One cheer for Ben Wallace
The outgoing Defence Secretary’s record is thinner than one might think
Europe’s foreign policy muddle
What foreign policy does the EU want, and does it even want one
Britain’s Hindu nationalism problem
An ideology of grievance and power could cause problems for Britain
The West’s Ukraine policy is no longer ethical
Conscription is a moral evil we should not support
Liberal Britain, not Little England
A post-Brexit Britain needs a foreign policy reset
Facing the China question
What should, or can, be done about China’s power overseas?
Sanctions don’t work
Why do we keep resorting to them?
Giving Mozart a makeover
Mozart: The Salzburg Project (Warner)
War returns to Kursk
Could the famous WW2 era battlefield be yet another military turning point?
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
Art as collateral
Making art mean something again
Run from “Rabbits”
Hugo Rifkind’s new novel is like a warm bath turning cold
The West should stop indulging delusions on Ukraine
Ukraine cannot achieve its maximal goals
Badmissions procedures
Putting decisions in the hands of non-specialist administrators fails students and universities
Israel off the leash
For Benjamin Netanyahu, continuing the war is a matter of political survival, and he goes to America to raise support, not to listen to calls for peace
Hush, nepo baby
Such colourful champions of free speech should be treasured rather than ridiculed
Women have bad odds with Dodds
This appointment is an insult from Keir Starmer
