How Europe must respond as Trump and Putin smash the post-war order
The PAST week has been the bleakest in Europe since the fall of the Iron Curtain. Ukraine is being sold out, Russia is being ...
Donald Trump:the would-be king
IN HIS FIRST whirlwind month in office, Donald Trump has made his base exultant and left his opponents reeling. With his blit...
Reciprocal tariffs really mean chaos for global trade
What happens when you ditch the principles that underpinned global trade for three-quarters of a century? Donald Trump hopes ...
Countering China’s diplomatic coup
IN JUST A few weeks the Trump administration has unleashed a dizzying number of initiatives and controversies abroad, from im...
The Lucy Letby case shows systemic failure and a national malaise
IT IS HARD to know which is more shocking. Is it the murder of seven babies and attempted killing of seven others at the Coun...
Will Donald Trump and Elon Musk wreck or reform the Pentagon?
IN THE PENTAGON they must surely be on high alert. On February 9th President Donald Trump declared that it would soon become ...
Can Friedrich Merz save Germany—and Europe?
GERMANY IS THE hole at the heart of Europe. It accounts for a quarter of the European Union’s output but it has been in reces...
After DeepSeek, America and the EU are getting AI wrong
The attempt at global harmony ended in cacophony. As Emmanuel Macron’s ai summit drew to a close on February 11th J.D. Vance,...
How Labour can unshackle Britain’s most innovative region
THE IDEA that Oxford and Cambridge are bastions of elite privilege runs deep. The two universities were among the first to be...
The meaning of Donald Trump’s war on woke workers
IT AMOUNTS TO a bonfire of rainbow tape. Donald Trump has declared war on DEI, or diversity, equity and inclusion. He is alre...