A Pyrrhic Victory for Georgian Democracy
October 2, 2012
The opposition party Georgia Dream has won a convincing victory in Georgia's parliamentary elections.
Abandoned in Moscow
June 7, 2012
What will it take for the Obama administration to realise that their treasured "Reset" is the foreign policy equivalent of Monty's Python's dead parrot?
From Art as Life to Blood and Soil
May 29, 2012
'While between 1895 and 1945 the German debate over how to be modern resulted in a global killing-field, a group of artists in Worpswede
Don’t Mention the War
December 20, 2011
Book review of The Wartime Journals by Hugh Trevor-Roper; edited by Richard Davenport-Hines
Charles Murray
December 19, 2011
David Green says the most vilified of American sociologists has emerged as one of the great champions of liberty, while his analysis of the
An Islamist Winter?
December 19, 2011
While Islamists have prospered from the Arab Spring, they are not dominant. But vigilance is needed to protect the flame of freedom
Africans and Cannots
November 22, 2011
'It may be premature to celebrate the fall of Gaddafi, especially since the National Transitional Council has introduced sharia'
Best of Enemies
November 22, 2011
'The message is clear. The world can stop Iran getting nuclear weapons until the spring. After that, Israel might'