Rarely is a book’s publication as well-timed as John Kay and Mervyn King’s “Radical Uncertainty: Decision-Making Beyond the Numbers.” We’re in the grip of a…
Rarely is a book’s publication as well-timed as John Kay and Mervyn King’s “Radical Uncertainty: Decision-Making Beyond the Numbers.” We’re in the grip of a…
What exactly was it that melted Germany’s ‘Iron Chancellor’ into ferrous gloop this week? Political scientists probing the wet, shapeless mass puddling around their feet…
Let’s start with Stalingrad. If you read Anthony Beevor’s book about the turning point of World War II, the impression is one of senseless waste….
My five-year-old son asked me if coronavirus has gone away, I told him no, it’s on holiday in America. The daily number of recorded new…
The global fallout from the horrendous murder of George Floyd in May this year, evolved in a peculiarly British direction once it hit these shores…
In the upper Himalayan valley of Ladakh, twenty Indian soldiers were killed on 15 June 2020 in a border incident with the Chinese army. This…
The UK, with between 40,000 and 65,000 deaths depending on which measure you use, has suffered disproportionately during coronavirus. It has the third-highest death toll…
In the strict nationalist lineage of General Mustafa Kemal, the founder of modern Turkey, the current Turkish president succeeded in methodically moving his pawns to…
There is no British hero better loved than Winston Churchill. He is seen as the human representation of British values like honesty, perseverance, and courage….
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued a scathing statement on June 6, in response to Beijing’s exploitation of the tragic death of black man…
After Dominic Cumming’s Rose Garden press conference I tweeted this. I was astonished it went so (semi) viral, with over 2 million views. But I…