Ukraine crisis
If Putin comes, the Poles are waiting - a report from Nato's new frontline
Nato’s beefed-up military exercises are impressive – and ominous
Wanted: a party leader willing to talk about defence
In the 1984 US presidential election, Ronald Reagan came up with an effective way of embarrassing his rival Walter Mondale…
It’s Nato that’s empire-building, not Putin
For Nato and the EU as much as for Putin, Ukraine is a question not of virtue but of power and land
Shelling, militiamen and shattered villages: welcome to eastern Ukraine’s ceasefire
Ukraine’s war goes on – in some places now, and soon everywhere
Violence, fear, confusion: this is what comes into a leadership vacuum
The old cliché that ‘nothing happens in August’ has again been brutally disproved. From the centenary of the outbreak of…
Why a City job should be graduates’ last resort
August is the season for conversation about career choices. Every holiday party seems to include new graduates or next year’s…
I know how ineffective sanctions are – but these ones just might work
‘Sanctions,’ said Kofi Annan, ‘are a necessary middle ground between war and words.’ Neither the EU nor the US will…
Sanctions won’t tame Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Talking might
Sanctions won’t help. One thing might
Vladimir Putin’s empire of lies
Putin’s answer to the destruction of Flight MH17 has been more propaganda. In Russia, at least, it seems to be working
Peter Mandelson’s diary: The accomplishments of George Osborne – and Vladimir Putin
My trips to meet Russians in Russia these days are a little less controversial than my encounter with them in…
No, Putin didn’t plot to invade Ukraine. But now he might have to
Further Russian military intervention would be a disaster. But Putin might have to do it anyway
Let Putin have Crimea – and it will destroy him
Losing Crimea will be the making of Ukraine. And gaining it might well destroy the Russian president
Cicero would have agreed with Putin
Last September Russian President Vladimir Putin warned against a ‘unipolar’ world, saying that the national revival of Russia was in…
