Theme: Global affairs

Total Results: 1060


Red Cross volunteers fighting against the spanish flu epidemy in United States in 1918. Photo: Apic/Getty Images
March 25, 2020

Why this could be worse than the Spanish flu We may have far better medicine than 100 years ago, but we're not as well prepared for the aftershocks of an epidemic

Gerard DeGroot

Tuesday
17.03

17.03

Why had we never heard of Wuhan? Chinese megacities are changing the world. Knowing about only Beijing and Shanghai is no longer enough

Peter Franklin

Thursday
12.03

12.03

Get ready for Fortress Europe Now that Turkey's autocrat has turned migrants into weapons, hardline border policies are becoming mainstream

Aris Roussinos

Friday
28.02

28.02

Tinpot Trump is nothing like Hitler Five signs the President is more Central Asian despot than genocidal maniac

Daniel Kalder

28.02

Will coronavirus change the world? As we await a new contagion, the legacy of the Black Death is worth remembering

Ed West

Wednesday
26.02

26.02

Unlike Corbyn, Bernie Sanders is not an anti-Semite The American Right's smears smack of cynicism

Tanya Gold

Friday
21.02

21.02

How Kazakhstan’s multicultural dream turned sour Ethnic tension is flaring up in a nation that paints itself as a haven of stability in a volatile region

Joanna Lillis

Wednesday
19.02

19.02

Bigger than Brexit: the new politics of climate change Achieving ‘net zero’ will involve such massive changes to the economy and society that politics will have to be transformed too

Peter Franklin

Tuesday
11.02

11.02

Why we should be worried about coronavirus This crisis probably won't kill us all; but sooner or later a pandemic is bound to wipe out the human race

Peter Franklin

Monday
10.02

10.02

Could this be Germany’s next Chancellor? The elites adore Robert Habeck and his Green party — but the appeal only extends so far

David Goodhart

Friday
07.02

07.02

The danger, and hope, of the European Right This week's National Conservatism conference in Rome brought together the continent's leading nationalist thinkers. What should we make of them?

Douglas Murray

Friday
24.01

24.01

What unites the Nazis and Communists? It is well worth climbing the literary mountain that is Vasily Grossman's <i>Life and Fate</i>

Douglas Murray