The West is in retreat. That is the message that the catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan has given to the world. I am hardly the first to make these points but…

As Kabul has been captured by the Taliban, and US and NATO forces withdraw from Afghanistan, an old liberal mantra is now fashionable: “you can’t impose democracy with bayonets”. Many…

In early June, the European Union’s attempt to issue a unified response regarding Chinese human rights abuses was blocked by a single defiant leader: Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. This…

We live in a time when freedom is the most important thing for the development of a healthy society. Without it, prosperity would be an imaginary noun. Freedom means acting…

Among the most pressing themes in the public debate is the acquisition of the Monte dei Paschi Di Siena bank (MPS) – by the commercial bank Unicredit, both of whom…

One year on from the stolen Belarusian elections, Lukashenko still remains in power. His iron grip on the country has tightened in the weeks and months since the people of…

Although Brazil is one of the greatest economies in the world, it has one of the lowest scores on international exams applied to high school students. In the last edition…

Earlier in the year, I produced what I described as my lockdown reading list for conservatives. A confinement later, and things are starting to look up. We are in many…