Foreign Policy
The Trump administration’s parting blows
There is an ignoble history of outgoing administrations making things harder for their unwelcome successors – and Trump’s departure was no exception
Ethiopia teeters as UK government is preoccupied by Covid-19
Developing countries that the UK assists are being sidelined as the UK government’s attention is seized by Covid-19 and domestic troubles
The assassination of Soleimani
The Arab Spring didn’t amount to much, but when the US killed Soleimani last year it was a unexpectedly positive counterpoint
The triumph of the Trump doctrine
An appraisal of the President’s foreign policy would find he was consistent, traditional, multilateral – and highly successful
Why we might look back on Trump’s foreign policy with fondness
Joe Biden’s election signals a return to Washington’s default liberal and progressive values, especially in foreign affairs
British self-interested aid
Is it wrong that donor countries should also benefit from their development aid projects?
A tribute to Owen Harries
In memoriam
Covid is a symptom of the Age of China
British statecraft is not protecting us from an emerging autocratic superpower
Wanted: A new Labour foreign policy
It comes as no surprise that Jeremy Corbyn leapt to Russia’s defence after the Salisbury poisoning
Is Scottish independence really dead?
Labour’s “more devolution” policy will only strengthen the cause in the long term
Doing shots
You can tell a lot about someone from their favourite Henry wife
Rehabilitating an Edwardian genius
The sheer scale and diversity of Lutyens’ output is mind-blowing
Urban insecurity and conflict
The medieval English town was subject to fire, flood, plague — and revolution
A dark day for Australian women
It takes more than a document to prove that you are female
The Worlds of Marco Polo: The Journey of a Thirteenth-Century Venetian Merchant; Palazzo Ducale, Venice
For millennia all that was rare, exquisite, gorgeous and strange traversed the “Silk Road”
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
A captivating northern star
If Lise Davidsen sneezes, the opera world shuts down
Of mice and men and Magdalen
C. S. Lewis’s Oxford by Simon Horobin
No room for reform?
We should hope that even the worst people can change
Who are the Scottish Conservatives?
The election of Russell Findlay to lead the Scottish Conservatives reveals a party that doesn’t know what it stands for
