Holocaust Memorial Day: we need to reconcile the conflicting lessons of the the last century
Heavy-handed Iraq-style occupations are out, but so are Libya-style interventions on-the-cheap
Marko Attila Hoare
The West’s responsibility for the Ukrainian crisis
The threat of war hanging over Ukraine is the ugly offspring of the West’s longstanding enabling of Russian imperialism, writes Marko Attila Hoare.
What does it mean to be left wing today?
The left-right divide is an important divide in British and international politics, but far from the only one.
Parliament has sent a clear message to Assad: he can go on killing without fear of British reaction
Future historians studying Britain’s decline and retreat from global responsibility and relevance may view Miliband as a pivotal figure.
Abortion is a tragic choice no woman should have to make
Abortion is something so horrible it has to be described with euphemisms: ‘a woman’s right to control her own body’; ‘a woman’s right to control her reproductive choices’. But the most common is ‘a woman’s right to choose’.
If Miliband continues to dither on Syria, he may go down in history as Labour’s John Major
According to the dictum attributed to Edmund Burke, all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Yet evil will triumph even more easily if good men help the evil-doers. In the Syrian civil war, with more than 80,000 dead and no end in sight, that is what the European Union has been doing, by upholding an arms embargo on the supply of weapons to all sides.
Because the Spectator apparently doesn’t believe in the right to reply
Because the Spectator apparently doesn’t believe in the right to reply
Labour’s shameful links with the anti-immigration right
Anyone opposed to this shameful collusion with the hardline anti-immigration right should write to the Labour Party figures in question, or to their constituency parties, and make their feelings clear.