Foreign Policy
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?
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
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
Crossing the public health Rubicon
Are there any limits to statist safetyism?
Bursary school
Refuse to play the poverty card
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
One of the greats
Bathos, fatalism, heartbreak: these are the pillars of a MacColl song
St. Vincent
The acclaim is excessive but the talent undeniable
Keeping your head may just save your soul
Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age
Mental illness is more complex than we think
There are no easy answers when it comes to mental health
How to be anti-woke without being weird
There is a thin but vital line to tread
It is good to challenge kids
That which makes us anxious can also make us strong
