The spectre of Winston Churchill
The great wartime leader continues to haunt British politics and identity.
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Keir Starmer needs to stop prioritising trips abroad
While making international connections is important, the Prime Minister has voters at home to answer to.
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North Korean troops in Russia is a dangerous escalation
The war in Ukraine has reached new global dimensions.
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The curse of Netanyahu’s war
Can the Israeli prime minister resist the urge to pursue a devastating escalation?
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The Lammy Doctrine
Labour’s foreign-secretary-in-waiting on why Britain must adapt to the world as it is, not as liberals wish it to be.
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The democratic battle for Georgia’s soul
Protests against the government’s “foreign agents law” are just part of the story.
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Dune: Part Two depicts a world of ceaseless struggle – like our own
Resource scarcity, neo-feudalism, perpetual conflict: Denis Villeneuve’s film is not a fantasy but an epiphany of the present.
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Europe’s new age of insecurity
In the era of Trumpian politics, the US’s allies must fortify and regroup: they can no longer rely on the…
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The Trumpian end of the liberal world order
With the former president’s return the West may finally be released from its mission impossible.
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Can Europe defend itself in a hostile world?
A Trump victory in November would expose the EU’s fatal gaps in defence spending.
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The slipperiness of ceasefire
Why the path to peace is shorter in Gaza than Ukraine.
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The death of humanitarianism
How the West is paying the price for the unipolar moment.
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The Iran problem
How the US is losing control of the Middle East.
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The West’s rivals everywhere are exploiting its vulnerabilities
From Africa to Latin America, competing power blocs are gaining from liberal democracies’ stalled growth and lack of focus.
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Pax Americana’s last gasp
The US appears increasingly unable to rein in Israel’s war.
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The case for an Atlantic Union
In a world of great-power rivalry, Europe and America need each other.
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Henry Kissinger’s real triumph
The former diplomat, who has died at age 100, profited for decades by telling clients what they wanted to hear.
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Lapland: a prisoner of geography
Threatened by Russia as well as climate change, Finland’s northernmost region has become a front line of western Europe’s existential…
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Cheap weapons, new wars
Warfare is increasingly about low-tech not high-tech arms – and the US is falling behind.
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Gaza and Ukraine have divided the world into geopolitical tribes
From universalists to Westernists, there are common patterns holding the views on the two conflicts together.
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