US foreign policy
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
The West should stop indulging delusions on Ukraine
Ukraine cannot achieve its maximal goals
Could Trump be a world leader?
His sense of his own importance might not be suited to isolationism
Trump the peacemaker?
Donald Trump’s survival should inspire him to seek an end to violence
Doing something can be worse than doing nothing
The Gaza pier and the failings of a “do something” foreign policy
Why is the US facing a “crisis of credibility”?
It is a crisis that has been created by the hubris of the establishment
How the Ukraine delusion may end
Biden might entertain peace to cut his losses and boost his election chances
Has the US acted in good faith over Ukraine?
Weakening Russia seems to have been more important than strengthening Ukraine
The man who loved power
Henry Kissinger loved to wield power more than he respected its implications
Invading Mexico is an insane idea
It would be costly and it would fail
Imagine there’s no Gove
Who’s in the room matters, and there were some which would have been better off without Michael Gove
Death on demand?
Euthanasia offers only bad choices to the most vulnerable patients
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
The effects of Brexit are still being misreported
A new paper has received a lot of attention — all of it undeserved
Nothing to declare
Labour have done nothing wrong, but they’re going to stop it
Explaining reality to Ed Miliband
You can’t ban baking and eat cake
Art as collateral
Making art mean something again
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
Keir’s junk politics
Keir Starmer is trying to reform the public, not the NHS
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
