The UK’s £100m winter air-defence package for Ukraine, including Patriot missiles is admirable. However, it also highlights the extraordinary weakness of Britain’s own air-defence arsenal There is something both admirable and faintly uncomfortable about B... See more
The Alternative für Deutschland’s historic victory in Saxony-Anhalt has been interpreted primarily as another milestone in the rise of Europe’s populist right. Yet beneath the electoral arithmetic lies a more practical question: what happens to migrants w... See more
For almost three years, one of the most emotionally powerful stories to emerge from Gaza has been the number of journalists, doctors, nurses and paramedics killed during Israel’s war against Hamas. The numbers have been repeated so often that they have ac... See more
Brussels’ latest assault on short-term rentals risks exposing a familiar weakness in European policymaking: a remarkable lack of understanding of how small-business actually operates. There is something revealing about the European Union’s latest attempt ... See more
The history of Britain’s Special Air Service (SAS) during the Northern Ireland Troubles has never been short of argument. What has been in shorter supply is perspective. A new Policy Exchange report, The Special Air Service in Northern Ireland: What they ... See more
