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Nov 10, 2025
Political punditry often falls prey to a common logical error: the fallacy of composition. It loves to generalise from a single observation. And the most common misjudgement...
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Nov 3, 2025
It is all about attitude and aptitude. Joel Mokyr, an economic historian and one of the recipients of this year’s Nobel Prize, writes in his 2016 book, A Culture of...
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Oct 14, 2025
Europe’s unity is cracking at its eastern edge, where a relationship once central to the EU’s postwar stability is souring. Behind the polite smiles of Donald Tusk and...
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Sep 22, 2025
Max Weber was the image of a cultured intellectual of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The German sociologist was best known for his essay “The Protestant Ethic and the...
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Sep 15, 2025
The edifices of the age of globalisation are toppling one by one. The institutions of our multilateral world are fading. The cult of diversity, equity and inclusion is going into...
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Aug 19, 2025
There are many more ways in which a peace process can fail than succeed. But for either to happen, it first needs to start.
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Jul 9, 2025
America has reportedly offered Brussels a deal to maintain a 10% tariff on all European Union goods, as it sends out missives to the countries affected.
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Jun 30, 2025
One indicator of decline is when you invent something but others become better than you at using it. Europeans invented modern diplomacy, including the version of which it is said:...
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Jun 19, 2025
This week’s G7 meeting in the Canadian Rockies has been overshadowed by the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran. But European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen...
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May 19, 2025
Back in 2020, when Brexit dawned, the UK was an average economic performer within the EU. Five years on, it is still an average economic performer relative to the EU. From an...
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May 10, 2025
The deal Donald Trump struck with the UK is bad news for the EU on several levels. For starters, it is intended to signal a trade deal template, but it is the kind of deal the EU...
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May 5, 2025
The moderate centre-right party used to be the big beast of politics. It was the party of small businesses and farmers, the party of small towns and villages, and affluent suburbia....
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Apr 3, 2025
When regimes end, they end in phases. Communism died over a period of 10 years, starting with the strike at the Gdansk shipyard in 1980. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was the...
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Mar 24, 2025
Imagine a world in which western Europe was actually able to stick it to Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump simultaneously.
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Mar 10, 2025
“And are we not guilty of offensive disparagement in calling chess a game? Is it not also a science and an art, hovering between those categories as Muhammad’s coffin...
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Feb 17, 2025
There is no longer any doubt that Europe and America are parting ways. The death of the transatlantic relationship was foretold many times, but at the Munich Security Conference this...
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Jan 6, 2025
They have a proud history. They run out-of-date business models. They are uncomfortable with the digital world. And they are getting older. Elements of the mainstream media and some...
Mar 24, 2025Imagine a world in which western Europe was actually able to stick it to Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump simultaneously. 