Features
Labour plays the blues
Restoring the party’s working-class roots means battling Boris Johnson—and the tide of history
Clouds of war and strategic delusions
Britain’s strategic outlook requires realism about the kind of conflicts we are prepared and willing to fight
Extremism gives us little reason to laugh
Woke politics offers conservative satirists an easy target, but the results neither sparkle nor shock
UK should wrong-foot Scottish ultras
Delaying another independence referendum may prove fatal. Better for No. 10 to lance the boil now and re-think the Union
Nato—time to wake up or shut down
Faced with a resurgent and objectionable Russia, and a transactional US, Nato must urgently transform for the new age
Search engine: why Germany’s foreign policy flounders
Europe’s economic colossus is crippled by identity politics and self-obsession. It exports instability
A troubled emperor
The French president faces a plethoraof problems from Brexit to beyond
Latin lovers
A new, distinctly conservative generation of French priests is reviving Catholic life in France
Kurdistan—a beacon of hope
Beleaguered and neglected, the Kurds remain the West’s best hope in the Middle East
Clouds of war and strategic delusions
Britain’s strategic outlook requires realism about the kind of conflicts we are prepared and willing to fight
Search engine: why Germany's foreign policy flounders
Europe’s economic colossus is crippled by identity politics and self-obsession. It exports instability
Alliances and dalliances
“The lethal combination of the Trump administration’s “America First” approach and many European members’ complacent, cowardly and stingy approach risks making Nato irrelevant”