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Nov 4, 2024
Ukraine is not yet defeated. But Russia has already won the battle that matters most: with the West.
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Oct 29, 2024
Neglect, not violence or illness, will be the likely cause of its demise.
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Oct 21, 2024
If Britain were properly governed, Keir Giles would still be “institutionalized in the Ministry of Defence” as he tells me. But Britain is in a mess, and one sign of this...
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Oct 7, 2024
Northern Europe is a bastion. Southern and Western countries, less so.
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Aug 26, 2024
Appease Russia or confront it, spies and saboteurs will target you regardless. Germans worry that sending Taurus long-range missiles to Ukraine would lead to a dangerous...
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Aug 5, 2024
Rejoice over captives’ freedom — but mourn the boost to the Kremlin’s business model.
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Jul 29, 2024
“Chinese Taipei” instead of Taiwan, 23 mainland Chinese participants who breached anti-doping rules, a Ukrainian team shrunken by the war, and...
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Jul 22, 2024
Last week’s meltdown is an overdue reminder of our wider vulnerability to cyberattack.
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Jul 15, 2024
Blenheim is the misspelled German name for a quintessentially British place. The lavish palace and sculpted grounds were built to reward the Duke of Marlborough for his victory in...
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Jul 8, 2024
Election campaigns are supposed to be where politicians encounter the real world. But the parliamentary elections in France and the United Kingdom, and the looming presidential...
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May 20, 2024
Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania tread a fine line between alarm and despondency.
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May 13, 2024
Attitudes to Russia’s war in Ukraine are shamefully complacent.
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Apr 30, 2024
The Chechen and Russian leaders are intertwined in life—and in mortality.
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Apr 22, 2024
The belated US aid package should banish both gloom and complacency
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Apr 15, 2024
A regional connectivity scheme needs more political oomph.
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Apr 1, 2024
The shameful dithering in Berlin, Washington DC, and other capitals impose a huge human and physical cost on Ukraine—and create great risks for everyone. Russia’s war...
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Feb 23, 2024
Rose-tinted lenses in the West mean bloodshed in the east now, with worse to come later.
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Feb 20, 2024
Without American engagement, Europe’s underlying divisions emerge, dangerously.
May 20, 2024Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania tread a fine line between alarm and despondency. 
May 13, 2024Attitudes to Russia’s war in Ukraine are shamefully complacent. 
Apr 30, 2024The Chechen and Russian leaders are intertwined in life—and in mortality. 
Apr 22, 2024The belated US aid package should banish both gloom and complacency 
Apr 15, 2024A regional connectivity scheme needs more political oomph. 
Apr 1, 2024The shameful dithering in Berlin, Washington DC, and other capitals impose a huge human and physical cost on Ukraine—and create great risks for everyone. Russia’s war...
Feb 23, 2024Rose-tinted lenses in the West mean bloodshed in the east now, with worse to come later. 
Feb 20, 2024Without American engagement, Europe’s underlying divisions emerge, dangerously. 