Russo-Ukrainian War
Russia is hurting badly
Friends of Ukraine must call Vladimir Putin’s bluff
Trump’s tough talk won’t end war in Ukraine
Putin has too much to lose to be intimidated
Could war in Ukraine have been avoided?
Robert Skidelsky argues that the West is partly to blame and John Lough argues that it is not
Did the West provoke Russia?
Tony Brenton argues that it did and Lawrence Freedman argues that it did not
No one is fighting a proxy war for Britain
Kemi Badenoch has unwittingly exposed the need for Britain to change course on foreign policy
The day of the drones
Ukraine has embarrassed the Kremlin and damaged Russia — but what comes next?
Dodging drones in the Red Zone
Despite the terror, Ukrainians are not giving up
Supremacy in the skies
How the Russo-Ukrainian War is being waged in the clouds
Would earlier escalation have stopped Russia?
Hawkish counterfactuals tell us little about the world as it is
Techno, bombs, and babushkas
A month travelling across Ukraine
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
On a wind and a prayer
Beggaring ourselves will not cool the rest of the planet’s weather
Not exiles, but stayers
White South Africans are not abandoning their home
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Britain should speak up for Egypt’s persecuted Christians
We should oppose blasphemy laws at home and abroad
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
Crisis? Watt crisis?
Renewable energy promises the gold at the end of a rainbow
Peston’s Inbox
Kemi doesn’t give her kids Easter eggs
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
One year later
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere