I’ve just returned from India. The fraction I saw was filled with everything working and people liking their Government and optimistic about the future. 

Does Prime Minister Modi’s strategy of strategic autonomy and refusal to ‘bend the knee’ offer a more effective model of middle-power diplomacy than the UK’s alliance-dependent approach, as illustrated by contrasting treatment from U.S. leaders?

What is it? Trump? China? Russia? New world order? Debt? Proliferation of nuclear weapons? Sorry for you and me it is something more mundane.

The post-Cold War unipolar moment, dominated by American economic, military and institutional power, is widely regarded as over. The rise of China, the strategic autonomy of India, the reassertion of Russia, and the growing influence of regional...

British public discourse is shaped not only by facts but by narrative familiarity. Conflicts that resonate tend to fit pre-existing moral frames: oppressor versus oppressed, powerful state versus vulnerable minority, or Western responsibility...

Britain’s immigration debate is dominated by a striking paradox. Westminster obsesses over migrants arriving, yet remains largely indifferent to the departure of those who contribute most to economic growth. This contradiction is not accidental....

When one faith is attacked, the instinctive human reaction is often tribal: to identify the attacker with a broader religious group and to retaliate symbolically, rhetorically or politically.

British politics treats migration with a strange asymmetry. Small boats crossing the Channel spark headlines, press conferences, and promises of crackdowns. Yet the departure of high-value individuals — entrepreneurs, doctors, investors, technologists,...

Does immigration strengthen a nation’s economy more than it strains its social fabric?

She is not who you might think she is.No, that is the President of the Republic of India. The first citizen of the country, and the supreme commander of the Indian Armed Forces.