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
Tolerating the intolerant
“For those who thought that a global pandemic would sound the death knell for identity politics, think again”
How to prevent the next pandemic
‘I have been reporting as a science journalist for years that the world is at increasing risk of pandemics like this; that this was predicted; that we know what we need to do to prepare and we simply haven’t done it; and that more and worse pandemics are coming so we need to do that, now’
D’où parles-tu? The post-truth world
Power, illusion and the open society: how postmodernism undermines our foundational concepts