Does it pay for bosses to embrace nationalism?
Canadian nationalism is very unlikely to get out of hand. But when even the politest people on Earth are wrapping themselves ...
Donald Trump is attacking what made American universities great
The conservative counter-revolution began with a secret memo, at least as the tale is often told on America’s political left,...
Donald Trump was right. Daylight Saving Time needs to go
Every spring about 1.6bn people have to change their clocks as they move into Daylight Saving Time. For many, including Europ...
Ending Central Asia’s endless squabbles over eccentric borders
Drums were banged and trumpets blasted when emotional residents of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan crossed the border between the t...
Every year, a few thousand people win Britain’s refugee lottery
Not everyone has to clamber onto a dangerous inflatable dinghy in the middle of the night. Some refugees fly to Britain. They...
FSB v Army
TWO WEEKS after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Sergei Beseda’s mobile phone went dead. Mr Beseda, a general in the ...
Germany’s Mütterrente is a poor way to pay parents
GERMANY’S constitutional debt brake has led to chronic underinvestment, so Friedrich Merz’s move to exempt both a €500bn ($53...
Europe cannot fathom what Trumpian America wants from it
Carl von Clausewitz, a 19th-century Prussian general, described warfare as “the realm of uncertainty”. The fellow never had t...
Hungry for more “Hunger Games”? There is plenty in store
Sunrise on the Reaping. By Suzanne Collins. Scholastic; 400 pages; $27.99 and £19.99 There is, one character says, “no way to...
Irish willingness to join NATO could ease unification
In 1949, when America’s ambassador handed Ireland’s foreign minister an invitation to join NATO, the answer was a polite no. ...