International Relations
Invasion literature
It couldn’t happen here. Right?
Britain must get real on foreign policy
Dim clichés and childish chest-beating are not going to help us
Playing the ball
The Kookaburra experiment seems a confused diversion, not a ticket to high intensity
Godfather of British geopolitics
The revolutionary global thinking of an Edwardian academic continues to shape attitudes today
The return of realism
There is a new tone to foreign policy debate
All aboard the ship of self-improvement
Why did NYU withdraw its support before the Floating University had left port?
The crisis we ignore
Armenians are in danger as the world looks the other way
The enduring Commonwealth
The rise and fall (and rise?) of the Commonwealth club
Long-distance nationalists
How the Armenian lobby has affected world opinion
Something in the way Xi moves
We should engage the CCP instead of being intimidated
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
Why young men like Donald Trump
He cuts through the sterility and severity of modern life
“Trope” is not a synonym of “lie”
You cannot dismiss an argument by calling it a trope
Rite of autumn
Labour is celebrating the harvest and definitely not sacrificing pensioners in the hopes that the gods grant us plenty in the coming fiscal year
The far enemy
The motivations for the 9/11 attacks are still misunderstood and moralised
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
For Heaven’s sake, not Robert Jenrick
He’s the ideal candidate if you want the Conservatives to lose
The British state is failing to protect women
Misogyny, rape and sectarian violence go increasingly unchallenged in the UK
The death of Britannia Agoraia
Deindustrialisation has done damage even beyond the realms of economics
The world is not enough
In the battle between abstract globalisation and rooted identity, the human spirit itself is at stake
