Foreign Policy
The moral chaos of Western foreign policy
You can’t take a stand if you don’t know where you stand
Know your Ally
Just who are our plucky Ukrainian friends?
The 1980s are calling
Liberal complacency has left us unprepared to face the crisis in Ukraine
Does Biden trust his generals?
As conflict threatens in Ukraine, the President is already at war with the Pentagon
Chip race with China
China’s purchase of Newport Wafer Fab follows a strategy to control high-tech supply chains. Does our Government grasp the danger?
The rise and fall of the China Question
Balance China realistically: let her overstretch and bleed
Happily ever EFTA?
This genuine trade bloc is a chance for Britain to show international leadership
Does AUKUS change Australia’s role in the Pacific?
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the past and present of Australia’s role in the western alliance
Rough statecraft
Biden’s Machiavellian moment
Tom Tugendhat’s empty rhetoric
What is the government supposed to do with Tom’s “rage”?
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
The “open borders experiment” is reversible
Keir Starmer can and should change the conditions by which migrants become eligible for Indefinite Leave To Remain status
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
How to win at Monopoly
Once you’ve amassed your empire, ruthlessness must be the name of the game
Lily Phillips and the importance of feeling
We must remain sensitive to unspoken pain
The half-forgotten promise of the Jubilee Line
The London Underground line points the way towards a better future
Belle époque on a plate
The Goring offers a level of enchantment seldom found in the environs of Victoria Station
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
