Europe
Licence To Chill? Not Yet, Prime Minister
David Cameron is a decent man whose consensual style has worked well so far. But the fight of his life — on Europe — may yet undo him
Compassion To Refugees, Not Capitulation To Islamic State
Europeans have a duty to open their hearts to those in real need — but also to use their heads and beware of extremist infiltration
The Great Migration
“The ultimate demographic impact on Europe of the present wave of migration is totally unpredictable”
Lift The Fee Cap And Set Universities Free
British higher education could be the best in the world if the Tories follow the US model of private autonomy, not Europe’s statist model
Conservative, Moi? Jamais De La Vie!
It’s the political label that dares not speak its name in France. And Nicolas Sarkozy’s latest rebranding exercise will change nothing
No End In Sight To The Exodus From Libya
There are no easy answers to the Mediterranean migrant crisis
Overrated: Napoleon
As we mark the bicentenary of Waterloo, there is an alarming trend towards rehabilitating Napoleon
Let’s Make Putin’s London Cronies Sweat
Our failure to face up to the Russian ruler could have dire consequences
Forgetting History
“The sudden rise of Pegida suggests Germany hasn’t found a way to digest the idea of immigration.”
Overrated: John Maynard Keynes
The economist’s legacy has been mostly disastrous
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