4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (421+ words) Imagine building a firewall. The wall remains intact, but the fire behind it keeps growing. At what point do you stop admiring the strength of the wall and start asking why nobody has put out the fire? The AfD won…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (380+ words) Premedidated riots in Dover and Portsmouth. A noisy Reform UK conference in Birmingham. Victory for the AfD in a German state election. Polls showing Marine Le Pen on track to become the next president of France. This week, Europe’s extreme…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (235+ words) These “historic events”, as Baudri calls them, are of course the events of the Norman Conquest. This described, imagined textile art winding its way around a noblewoman’s bedroom bears more than a striking resemblance to the Bayeux Tapestry. The continued…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (218+ words) What happened recently to the former University of Cambridge professor Jason Arday strikes me as a distinctly “Soviet-style” tragedy straight out of my first, Soviet, life. Let me explain why. There’s nothing more dangerous and oppressive than collective emotion—be…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (267+ words) Listen on Spotify | Listen on Apple Podcasts According to Nobel prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu, liberal democracy made three promises: that prosperity would be shared equitably, that capable government would deliver public services and that citizens would have voice to express…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (343+ words) The Kremlin is once again threatening Nato, and the United Kingdom in particular, over ongoing British support of Ukrainian forces. Not for the first time, the question is how seriously we should take these threats. For countries on the alliance’s…...