International Relations
Moral panic over Ukraine risks nuclear war
Putin is not Hitler, but if we lose perspective we risk pushing him to reckless extremes
Know your Ally
Just who are our plucky Ukrainian friends?
Ukraine special
Patrick Porter and Sam Ashworth-Hayes discuss the Ukraine invasion
Putin and the new global order
An older worldview makes a triumphant return, and splits the American right
The Spanish-American and Russo-Japanese wars
Professor Jeremy Black discusses rising powers and two turn of the century great power conflicts
Our enemies bring our friends closer
How can antipathy focus the mind in international relations?
What happened to British realpolitik?
Britain needs strategic realism and foresight, and most importantly, new thought leaders
The diverse legacy of Robert Jervis
The death of Jervis is a huge loss for the study of international relations
Iran’s nuclear conspiracy theories
Fantastical elements of the ‘cyberattack’ on Iran do nothing but delay the inevitable: a bomb is still coming — just not quite yet
Russia’s policy of Westernophobia
Weekly pressers from Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs have turned into festivals of hostility towards the countries caught in the Kremlin’s crosshairs — why?
Murders for April
April is the cruellest month, breeding detective fiction out of the dry land
Disposable women?
Middle-aged women are routinely ignored and dismissed by society — it is time for that to change
The right must learn from modern art
Marcel Duchamp’s rule-breaking provides real lessons for the right
The hidden cost of pronoun politeness
Using untruthful pronouns is not the same as complimenting a bad haircut
The truth about sex
No amount of clever-clever language games can obscure basic biological facts
The coddlin’ of the British dance
How Britain’s anarchic rave scene turned authoritarian
The grim reality of a citizens’ assembly
A seemingly democratic initiative was nothing of the sort
Good cops and bad spies
Intelligence services as portrayed on-screen are pretty ghastly places to work
How Britain fell in love with cars
From Wind in the Willows to Wodehouse, cars captured the imagination
Open season
I’m trying to stick to wild game, venison and native beef— and monogamy too
Scarlet Blake is a man
Indulging the fantasies of violent criminals is endangering women
