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Tuesday, 4 August, 2020

ReviewHistory books
America in the World — Robert Zoellick’s fine new history
How pendulum-like swings between interventionist and isolationist impulses have shaped US foreign policy
Thursday, 30 July, 2020

US foreign policy
A cold war does not answer China’s challenge
Guarding the west’s interests and values should not mean an ideological confrontation with Beijing
Thursday, 23 July, 2020

Coronavirus pandemic
The path from Covid-19 to a new social contract
Pandemic offers world leaders an opportunity to rebuild faith in liberal democracy
Thursday, 16 July, 2020

UK foreign policy
Huawei and the hard facts facing global Britain
China’s 5G bid has proved a lesson in the limits of sovereignty
Thursday, 2 July, 2020

Pound Sterling
Sterling’s faded illusion of sovereignty
The pound has been a ball-and-chain on successive UK governments
Thursday, 25 June, 2020

Russian politics
Russia cannot afford another 15 years at war with the west
Vladimir Putin should brush off the cold war cobwebs in pursuit of a hard-headed look at national interests
Thursday, 18 June, 2020

Brexit
Britain gets a glimpse of life after Brexit
The lesson from the pandemic is that national ‘sovereignty’ does not answer the challenges facing the UK
Thursday, 11 June, 2020

Geopolitics
America’s allies should prepare for a Biden presidency
The approach of the November election is not a time for Europeans to sit on their hands
Thursday, 4 June, 2020

Geopolitics
Three compass points for an EU-China policy
Europe is nothing without its commitments to human dignity, democracy and the rule of law
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Thursday, 28 May, 2020

Brexit
Britain’s Brexiters still do not understand Europe
The underlying assumption remains that the UK is somehow ‘owed’ privileged access
Thursday, 21 May, 2020

German politics
The EU’s fate rests on Germany’s identity crisis
Old tensions endure between ideas of a German Europe or a European Germany
Thursday, 14 May, 2020

UK politics & policy
British exceptionalism has reached the end of the road
Illustrious history is insufficient shield against a virus and grim reality of Brexit
Wednesday, 29 April, 2020

Geopolitics
Xi and Putin are the big losers from this pandemic
The relationship of unequals has seen both Beijing and Moscow wrongfooted by the crisis
Thursday, 23 April, 2020

UK politics & policy
How politics thwarted the UK’s Covid-19 response
Ministers failed to grasp the threat as Boris Johnson tried to swerve a tough response
Thursday, 16 April, 2020

National Health Service
Johnson can now redeem his debt to the NHS
Covid-19 and his brush with mortality present the UK prime minister with a unique chance
Thursday, 9 April, 2020

Geopolitics
The danger in the coronavirus recovery will be inertia
A make-do-and-mend approach will not be enough — we need a societal transformation
Thursday, 2 April, 2020

Coronavirus pandemic
Doctors are being asked to play God
The coronavirus pandemic is presenting hospitals with a terrible choice about whose life to save
Thursday, 26 March, 2020

Coronavirus pandemic
How coronavirus is remaking democratic politics
The superficial conclusion is that it will be a gift to populists and authoritarians
Thursday, 19 March, 2020

Coronavirus pandemic
National action cannot fix a global pandemic
US, China and Europe must work together to defeat coronavirus
Thursday, 12 March, 2020

Brexit
Johnson’s covert Brexit plan is self-isolation
The real story is that all traces of the EU are to be expunged from the public realm
Thursday, 5 March, 2020

Coronavirus pandemic
Coronavirus lays a political minefield
Hopefully, its defeat will show the worth of intelligent and honest government
Thursday, 27 February, 2020

Nuclear proliferation
Trump’s America is threatening the nuclear peace
Hostility to multilateralism means the forces that contained proliferation are dissipating
Thursday, 20 February, 2020

Europe
Merkel and Macron: Europe’s missed chance
German and French leaders’ hesitation could be fatal
Thursday, 13 February, 2020

Populism in Europe
Europe must embrace a new way of politics
The two-party system that prevailed for so long has been upended
Thursday, 6 February, 2020

Emmanuel Macron
The skies darken for France’s Sun King
His imperious manner and lack of emotional intelligence make him vulnerable