2 Mar 2021 - 12:00am

We will never defeat the Taliban While the West fights an enemy that doesn't exist, Afghanistan is poised to fall to pieces

Mike Martin

16.09

Can bad men do good things? The idea that President Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize isn't as crazy as it sounds

Stephen Pollard

18.12

Let’s all go back to the year 2000 If you had the power to turn back time, would you re-set the 21st century and start again?

Peter Franklin

07.11

Ban the bomb? The world’s moved on, Mr Gorbachev The former Soviet leader is decades out of date about the real threats to world peace

Mary Dejevsky

20.09

Have we forgotten Syria? This intimate account of life during the war serves as a reminder that the appalling conflict continues to corrode nations and destroy lives

Ian Birrell

11.07

China’s great global game Donald Trump needs to see the bigger picture

Peter Franklin

07.11

How the liberal West is dismantling itself

John Gray

07.11

The forgotten tragedies of the First World War We focus on the horrors of the Western Front, but millions died beyond the trenches

Peter Franklin

05.09

History shows Britain cannot rely on America’s friendship The fifty-fifty deal deserves as much attention as Suez in explaining the decline of British influence in the Middle East

James Barr

13.08

Which is the greater threat to the West, Saudi or Iran?

Michael Burleigh

25.05

How digital dissidents are defying the despots

Ian Birrell

10.05

A media that doesn’t ‘do God’ isn’t worth believing in

Tim Montgomerie