Foreign Policy
Sanctions don’t work
Why do we keep resorting to them?
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 Met is watching you
We are passively accepting the development of a society of hyper-surveillance
Great Lives — great, The Essay — awful
Radio 3 maintains its course towards self-destruction
Immigration enthusiasts and problematic polling
New analysis made British voters look far more pro-migration than they are
Beethoven: Nine symphonies+ (Decca)
This Beethoven gift set is not for Christmas. It is for life
The great immigration data disaster
Officials are deleting the data we need for a more sensible debate
Man of letters: reading between the lines
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters by Andrew Stauffer
The Rwanda Bill and the rule of law
Our constitutional tradition strictly separates international law from domestic law
The death of charity?
The decline of religion and the fraying of our social fabric has made us meaner
The school as a battleground
Michaela defeat will not deter Islamist designs on schools
Learning in the round
Spreading fingers over a globe, not pinching them on a screen, is the best way to answer questions
Make architecture art again
Attractive architecture should draw from the past while looking to the future
