As Western politics descends into populism, it’s time to take responsibility for the world we have created and our faltering position in it Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn and Momentum, Marine Le Pen and the Front National, UKIP, ultranationalists in Hungary and Poland, the Alternative for Germany, the Freedom Party of Austria, Podemos… Continue reading The blame game
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Iran: strategic threat or strategic opportunity?
The nuclear deal between the US and Iran presents a unique strategic opportunity to change the nature of the West's involvement in the Middle Eastern
What are we fighting for? It’s not freedom of speech.
It is lazy and self-indulgent to think we are fighting for freedom of speech. We need to be honest and cut through our own hypocrisy. Salman Rushdie says that freedom of speech can only be an absolute. In expressing his anger last week at the vilification of the victims of the Charlie Hebdo massacre for expressing… Continue reading What are we fighting for? It’s not freedom of speech.
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