Geopolitics
The far enemy
The motivations for the 9/11 attacks are still misunderstood and moralised
Pushing the boundaries
The map of the world is likely to be redrawn, thanks to the decline of post war Pax Americana, an expansionist Russia and China, and the push for ethnic sovereignty
The new Ottomans
The fall and rise of Istanbul under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
WW3 and the end of history
The age of world wars is past, the age of global civil war has come
Godfather of British geopolitics
The revolutionary global thinking of an Edwardian academic continues to shape attitudes today
Britain’s twilight war
The UK is fighting an unwinnable conflict in a world that it doesn’t understand, without plan or purpose
The multi-matrixed revolutions
Predictions of a new Cold War understate the complexity of the future
Xi bangs the drum
On geopolitics with Chinese characteristics
The ways of war
Geopolitics in understanding World War Two
The opposing eagles
Geopolitics in Nazi Germany and the United States
When geek culture was good
A celebration of Spaced
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
The grand Budapest hotel
The Hungarian Prime Minister’s office gives Orbán the space to think
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
Debunking the decline deniers
Armed police at Christmas markets are a bad sign however you look at it
Save nursing from the universities
There is no need for nursing to be a graduate only occupation
Making a difference
Over the past five years we’ve been keeping things civilised
Feminist rehab for mean girl Mahler
You’d have thought the Head Muse of old Vienna had enough on her plate
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
Crisis of leadership
No Tory can seriously expect conservatism from Kemi Badenoch
