Within this week’s issue we present a number of articles and different points of view surrounding the invasion of Ukraine, the causes, the strategies and the ramifications for us all. One theme, of course, keeps recurring, and that is what Rebecca Weisser describes in this week’s cover story as our Peter Pan politics, the notion that the West has for far too long indulged in fairy-tale policies built on fantasy ‘woke’ concerns – such as climate, race and gender identity – but now it is time for us all to ‘grow up’.