The end of Pax Americana at sea
The Ukrainians have a lot to teach the United States and the Trump administration about naval warfare. Read more The indignity of Gaudí Lego When Russia invaded four years ago,…
Donald Trump: false prophet
The epic disaster that followed Donald Trump’s air assault on Iran was the expression of two extreme likelihoods. One concerned the assault itself, which almost everyone knew would empower the…
My night with the young gay Tories
Sir Michael Fabricant assures me that he isn’t “a teddy bear fetishist”. I glance around the former Conservative MP’s living room at the multiplicity of ursine plushies, each comatosely slouched…
Britain’s Atlantic subordination
Mythology does not record whether Cassandra, whose double curse was the gift of prophecy fated to be ignored, felt at least some glimmers of satisfaction as her city of Troy…
Labour’s battle of ideas
And so, Wes Streeting has fired the first shot in a “battle of ideas” within the Labour Party. Others will call it a civil war. Yet more will ask why…