Ukraine crisis
Watching the next war
Nato’s beefed-up military exercises are impressive – and ominous
Exit, pursued by a bear
In the 1984 US presidential election, Ronald Reagan came up with an effective way of embarrassing his rival Walter Mondale…
The empire-builders
For Nato and the EU as much as for Putin, Ukraine is a question not of virtue but of power and land
Notes from a ceasefire
Ukraine’s war goes on – in some places now, and soon everywhere
World disorder
The old cliché that ‘nothing happens in August’ has again been brutally disproved. From the centenary of the outbreak of…
My summer advice for graduate job-seekers: try the City last, and steer well clear of PR
August is the season for conversation about career choices. Every holiday party seems to include new graduates or next year’s…
Sanctions rarely work, but they might make oligarchs whisper in Putin’s ear
‘Sanctions,’ said Kofi Annan, ‘are a necessary middle ground between war and words.’ Neither the EU nor the US will…
What to do about Putin
Sanctions won’t help. One thing might
Empire of deceit
Putin’s answer to the destruction of Flight MH17 has been more propaganda. In Russia, at least, it seems to be working
Diary
My trips to meet Russians in Russia these days are a little less controversial than my encounter with them in…
Will there be war in Ukraine?
Further Russian military intervention would be a disaster. But Putin might have to do it anyway
Putin’s poison pill
Losing Crimea will be the making of Ukraine. And gaining it might well destroy the Russian president
Cicero on Putin
Last September Russian President Vladimir Putin warned against a ‘unipolar’ world, saying that the national revival of Russia was in…
