International
Beijing’s Buffer
‘North Korea is a vital buffer for the Chinese to counter the heavy US presence in Japan and South Korea…The idea that Beijing might rein in Pyongyang is a Western illusion’
Last Post for a Global Power
Britain’s Strategic Defence and Security Review is cutting vital parts of the armed forces. It must be changed before events change it for us
Contempt for Court
‘After seven years, the International Criminal Court prosecutor has yet to secure a single conviction—or even an acquittal’
Calculated Ignorance
‘If international affairs are your bag, you might as well have voted for the Ba’ath Party as the Conservatives’
A New World Order?
‘It is fascinating to see the outlines of an emerging world order for the 21st century’
Palestine’s Tragedy
The recent Israeli Apartheid Week shamefully neglected Zionism’s complaisance to peaceful co-existence
Is the Obama Presidency Failing?
The administration is in deep trouble on healthcare and national security
When Humans Are Just Pieces of Cargo
Despite laws, protocols and international conventions, the number of people being trafficked into servitude is growing
Smarter than Smart Bombs
‘In his desire to see the bombers go into Iran, John Bolton does not consider the sort of smart sanctions experts actually envisage’
The Unnecessary Recession
A flawed economic doctrine led Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling to plunge Britain into its worst postwar crisis
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?