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The state Britain is in

Emmanuel Macron goes to Washington

A bad year for autocrats. Xi and Putin are the big losers of 2022

How Trump and Putin lost the midterms

Olaf Scholz goes to China

The Conservatives have been broken by Brexit

Assume a can opener. The Truss government’s answer to Britain’s economic crisis

What Joe Biden might say to Liz Truss

Navigating the Mountains and Ravines of a Post-Western World

After jettisoning Boris Johnson, the Tories won’t hesitate to dump Liz Truss

The inconstant meaning of Liz Truss

The Elgin Marbles belong to the Parthenon

The fall of Boris Johnson

Indo-Pacific: Oceans Together, Oceans Apart

Two home truths for the US and Europe from Putin’s war on Ukraine

Whatever happened to Sergey Lavrov?

Macron is sabotaging his own case for European security

Nothing has changed. Johnson is finished

The last Big Mac and the end of the end of history

The sadness of the Queen's jubilee

Putin's war and the shape of the new world disorder

The last days of Boris Johnson

Putin and Xi are in trouble. How fortunes change in a world without a hegemon

The west’s Ukraine “realists” have lost touch with reality

Russia cannot win, but Ukraine looks set to lose

Putin’s bloody war on Ukraine should remake the West’s mindset

Why Ukraine matters so much, and why sanctions against Putin are not enough

The dangerous end of Northern Ireland’s Unionist Ascendancy

As Putin menaces Ukraine, Germany is disarming the West

After Johnson. What Britain needs next

Michael Collins was right to be cautious about Irish unity