Why are we arguing again about appeasement, the Munich crisis and Neville Chamberlain, UK prime minister from 1937-40? The immediate hook is the film of…
Why are we arguing again about appeasement, the Munich crisis and Neville Chamberlain, UK prime minister from 1937-40? The immediate hook is the film of…
Contrary to the fears publicly expressed by the Ukrainian government in December 2021, and later echoed by the US authorities, Vladimir Putin has no intention…
It seems increasingly unlikely that the “people’s priority” of levelling up will amount to very much during this government’s time in office. Lack of funds,…
After two years of Covid, politics in disarray in many countries, and increasing geopolitical tensions, it is easy to slide into a pessimistic outlook for…
Demographers are starting to talk about global population decline, with alarm. Why is population decline alarming? The world has gone through periods of catastrophic population…
Danny Kruger closed the recent Radix Big Tent leaders’ summit by suggesting that community land trusts (CLTs) should become much more common. He was echoing…
December 24 is when Germans celebrate Christmas, on ‘holy night’, gathered together in small family groups perhaps before visiting Midnight Mass, a tradition played out…
Nowhere, wrote the economic historian Karl Polanyi several decades ago, has liberal philosophy failed so conspicuously as in its understanding of the process of change….
On 12 November, a major international conference on Libya was held in Paris, co-chaired by the leaders of France, Germany and Italy, as well as…
I agree with the commentary that Richard Rogers, our favourite British architect, was a giant. But I did cross swords with him once – the…
Read foreign media, you Numpties! Normally, I like to meander my way to my conclusion in the style of a normal columnist. I lay out…
In yet another week of white, hot outrage in Parliament, John McNally MP (SNP, Falkirk) bravely rose on his hindlegs and asked the Prime Minister…