Foreign Policy
Developing nations will be forced to choose
Sitting on the fence between China and the USA is unsustainable
Join the escalation?
That world war may not erupt imminently is no excuse for being complacent
End of the Long Peace?
Our technological and institutional sophistication will not eliminate conflict
Labour’s insecurity counsel
A strategy of concession and apology will not build Britain’s soft power
Donald Trump and the age of sovereign internationalism
We are entering a new age of great power competition
Donald Trump should not heed the call of foreign policy hawks
The world is not split neatly between good guys and bad guys
No interest in national interests
The government is not putting Britain first
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
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
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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
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
An unpleasant man, and a genius
The most interesting people are not necessarily the most attractive
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Ed Miliband is a bad environmentalist
He has put virtue signalling before effectiveness
When compassion kills
Decriminalising vagrancy is no act of kindness
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad