Tacitus
How our adversaries use our flaws against us
‘For a young officer unaccustomed to the crack of rounds hissing around me, the ill-trained jihadis in black masks seemed straight out of central casting. It took years for me to realise how insignificant such events really were’
To preserve liberal democracy, look East
‘The Baltic democracies accomplished what their allies to the West still have not: they hardened their societies without undermining their democratic institutions’
Thus always to tyrants
Actually — assassinating Soleimani was the right thing to do
The myth of “military efficiency”
Civilians talk of “military efficiency”. We soldiers know better
A view from the ramparts
The West spends too much money on weapons and too little time on promoting its real strength: ideas
Majority rule; minority rights
It is folly to treat UK race relations as totally divorced from the rest of human experience. We need to look at the larger global picture
American revolutions: Rewriting the language of the unheard
‘Dissenting viewpoints — for example, the belief that America is not an intrinsically racist country—are shunned as further proof of racist pathologies’
The favourites
From Piers Gaveston onwards, controversial courtiers have a long history in British politics.How unusual is Dominic Cummings?