Foreign Policy
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
June letters
Hard power is the only currency that is truly respected
Time for realpolitik in Israel
Britain’s foreign policy in the Middle East should put British interests first
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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
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
Confessions of a Yankee Anglophile
For all our differences, Americans and Britons will never be too far apart
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
Indefinite leave, unlimited access
While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state