We promise to respect Her Majesty’s life tenancy of Buckingham Palace

Britain needs strategic realism and foresight, and most importantly, new thought leaders

Global Britain loses out on the possible benefits of Brexit: the creation of a cooperative, triangulated, Regional Britain

The Russians assume we use Opera to project state power, I assure them that the government hate the arts

Lisa Hilton tries indigestible mac ’n’ cheese at a venue that should have gone the way of the tzars

The winners of the Cold War turned out to be the authoritarians, not the democrats

How can a man who leaves state secrets at the bus stop keep his job?

Boris Yeltsin’s path to the end of the Soviet Union, and the dawn of a new Russia that led, unerringly, to the despotic power we see today

The origins of a soviet leader revered as a visionary reformer in the west, but reviled as a weak American puppet in his native land

Drawing on the author’s experiences, the book’s effect is akin to having a long pub chat with a knowledgeable journo