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This is what liberal war fever looks like
In a private letter written in 1918, the recently deposed German chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg admitted that in the run-up…
Is the government in denial about the looming economic crisis?
The priority for the UK and other rich democracies is to protect the people of Ukraine from the depredations of…
Democrats double down on wasteful foreign aid
The latest version of the Democrats’ $1.5 trillion spending bill being pushed through Congress includes funding for questionable foreign projects,…
Why would the Saudis bail out Biden?
Is Saudi Arabia shunning Washington? Mohammed bin Salman has reportedly been refusing to phone Joe Biden, who wants the kingdom to…
Can Nato help Ukraine without provoking Putin?
Nato is trying to walk a tightrope in Ukraine. It wants the Russian invasion to be defeated, as the US joint…
Ukraine should think twice before joining the EU
Volodymyr Zelensky certainly made big waves when he addressed the European parliament. In the ensuing debate last week, many MEPs made…
Mail man changes his ‘Russian-sounding’ name
Sanctions, boycotts, bans, penalties of all kind: there’s no end to the punishments being slapped on Moscow. But amid the…
In defence of mutually assured destruction
The slow return of the 1980s has reached its logical conclusion. The prospect of nuclear annihilation is haunting our nightmares once…
Engels mustn’t fall
Should a 3.5 metre high Soviet statue of Karl Marx’s collaborator and patron Friedrich Engels – brought over from Ukraine…
Why is Britain so useless at helping Ukrainian refugees?
Some MPs were in tears yesterday when President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the House of Commons, and understandably so, given the…
British fighters in Ukraine are brave but misguided
The first British volunteers have arrived in Ukraine to ‘do their bit’ in thwarting the Russian invasion. According to reports…
Putin is bored
At the beginning of this year, Vladimir Putin was sitting comfortably in the Kremlin: his legacy so far a steady…
Zelensky’s address was strange, but sensational
This afternoon, the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the House of Commons. A single flat-screen TV broadcast his speech to…
Maria Bartiromo vs social media
Fox Nation, the online streaming counterpart to Fox News, recently dropped a new investigative series by Maria Bartiromo called Killer…
‘We will fight in the forests, the fields, the shores and in the streets’: Zelensky addresses the Commons
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was greeted with applause and a standing ovation this evening when he appeared before the House…
Could Turkey rejoin the West?
Istanbul, Turkey Wherever you go in Istanbul, Atatürk is rarely far away. Portraits of the man who founded the Turkish…
Labour flounders to define the word ‘woman’
Happy International Women’s Day! To mark this auspicious occasion, the Radio 4 programme Woman’s Hour today hosted a conversation between…
Putin miscalculated. Let’s not do the same
Only the Russian people can decide how long Putin remains in the Kremlin, but the invasion of Ukraine will likely…
Why is Britain reluctant to open its doors to Ukrainians?
Among opposition politicians there is a new question being asked of the war in Ukraine: why has the UK not…
Russia’s war on Ukraine: the lessons so far
The sheer complexity – and horror – of Russia’s war on Ukraine makes it difficult to distil the essential points. To take…
Ukraine isn’t Boris’s ‘Falklands moment’
What should we make of Boris’s response to war in Ukraine? The verdict from one Tory MP is already in: ‘History…
The problem with International Women’s Day
Am I the only one wondering how long it’ll be before the organisers of International Women’s Day are forced to…
How close is Russia to collapse?
Russia is now as closed off to the world as the Soviet Union was before Mikhail Gorbachev made his first tentative steps…
Now JK Rowling takes on the critics
Away from the scenes in eastern Europe, a very different terf war was playing out on Twitter yesterday between JK…
Where’s the outrage over Trudeau’s trip to Britain?
As Justin Trudeau waltzed through the UK, visiting Boris Johnson and the Queen, did anyone spare a thought for Canadians…
