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David Cameron's former director of strategy has a manifesto for the modern world
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Ten Billion Loose Ends
Two new books come to different conclusions about the geo-political impact of the coming population boom
Welcome to Obama’s Parallel Universe
Until Republicans convince voters that strong foreign policy is crucial to national security, America’s decline will continue
Mazower’s New World Order
Reading Mark Mazower is like being lectured by the best left-wing lecturer you'll ever have: he is brilliant but tiresome
Mission Creep
Rory Stewart’s new book Can Intervention Work? wants to help politically unstable nations but doesn’t know which way to turn Intervening in the affairs of other countries is always likely to be
Old Despots’ Home
Exiled tyrants need no longer fear: a luxurious afterlife awaits them in a club for failed dictators George Washington put his money into British government stock, and the Bank of England paid
Is China Really a Threat to us?
Dambisa Moyo, author of How the West was Lost, and Niall Ferguson, author of Civilization: The West and the Rest, discuss the Eastern challenge to Western prosperity with the Editor of Standpoint,
Last Post for a Global Power
Britain’s Strategic Defence and Security Review is cutting vital parts of the armed forces. It must be changed before events change it for us
ONLINE Only: Refugees ad infinitum
The unique reality for many Palestinians living in Lebanon is that their refugee status has become hereditary
History’s Greatest Ponzi Scheme
Politicians sat on their hands as the mighty American economy was sent to its doom. What is to be done to prevent a repeat?
Oslo: Signing OFF on Human Rights
The alternative human rights conference highlights causes that are too often ignored or forgotten by organisations like Amnesty International
Helping Africa Break Free
Aid to Africa is the problem, not the solution, according to Dambisa Moyo, Zambian-born economist and author of Dead Aid. She discusses the issue with Richard Dowden, executive director of the Royal