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How Trumpism Ends

How Trumpism Ends
27.03.2025 10

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Britain Must Downgrade the Special Relationship

28.02.2025 40

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Can the Liberal International Order Survive Without America?

05.02.2025 30

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China Won’t Save Labour’s Britain

LONDON – The late Labour Party leader Harold Wilson, who served as the United Kingdom’s prime minister during much of the 1960s and 1970s, famously...

31.12.2024 5

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The Sources of Japanese Resilience

TOKYO – I first visited Japan as a young member of the UK Parliament in the early 1980s. Yukio Satoh, an ambitious and forward-thinking diplomat...

06.12.2024 40

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The New Threat to Free Speech

LONDON – Since the golden age of Athenian democracy, freedom of speech has been viewed as a defining feature of open societies, even as it remains...

19.09.2024 3

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The Enduring Lessons of Stalin’s Wartime Endgame

TOULOUSE – Earlier this summer, an Australian friend called to congratulate me on my “OBE.” Puzzled, I asked, “What on earth do you mean?”...

21.08.2024 5

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Can Democracy Win in 2024?

LONDON – The most compelling argument for liberal democracy is that it empowers citizens to choose their own leaders, effectively placing the...

12.07.2024 3

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