Category Archives: Foreign Affairs

THE NEW STATESMAN MAGAZINE – MARCH 13, 2026

The Great British Crisis

THE NEW STATESMAN: The latest issue features ‘The Great British Crisis’…

Don’t let Britain decline

By John Bew

John Healey: Labour needs the “broadest group” in government

By Ailbhe Rea

Make porn expensive again

By Pippa Bailey

The rise of British Muslims

By Tam Hussein

PROSPECT MAGAZINE —— APRIL 2026 PREVIEW

PROSPECT MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘This Guilded Age’ – America has entered a new Gilded Age, in which a few individuals have immense wealth and apparently unaccountable power. David Aaronovitch warns us of the potential consequences of their carelessness

The new Gilded Age

The world is once again run by men with immense wealth. We should be frightened of their unaccountable power

The Modi cinematic universe

Imaan Irfan

To Arcadia or Transylvania? Theatre’s fork in the road

Kate Maltby

Epstein and the bodies in the pool

Could this idea save the Democrats?

FOREIGN AFFAIRS MAGAZINE – MARCH/APRIL 2026

FOREIGN AFFAIRS MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘THE NEW AMERICAN HEGEMONY’

The Predatory Hegemon

How Trump Wields American Power by Stephen M. Walt

The Age of Kleptocracy

Geopolitical Power, Private Gain by Alexander Cooley and Daniel Nexon

The Globalist Delusion

Why America Must Build a New Operating System by Nadia Schadlow

COMMENTARY MAGAZINE – MARCH 2026 PREVIEW

Commentary Magazine – A Jewish magazine of politics, high culture, cultural  and literary criticism, American and Israeli campaigns and elections, and  world affairs.

COMMENTARY MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘We Jews Have The Honor Of Being Hated’…

We Jews Have the Honor of Being Hated

Jews must cease hoping to solve anti-Semitism and make their own way forward by Bret Stephens

The Chutzpah of Yoram Hazony

by James Kirchick

‘Zio’ Is the New ‘N-Word’

The Pornography of Anti-Semitism

THE NEW STATESMAN MAGAZINE-JANUARY 30, 2026

How we escape Trump

THE NEW STATESMAN: The latest issue features ‘How We Escape Trump’…

How we escape Trump

By New Statesman

Ice and Donald Trump’s regime of violence

The age of Trump has twisted the American psyche beyond recognitionBy Lee Siegel

Britain needs a Gaullist leader

By Paul Ovenden

How a single call sealed Andy Burnham’s fate

By Ailbhe Rea

The turn to Europe is inevitable

By Andrew Marr

At the Harry Potter studios, I find the last remnants of Britain’s moral authority

By Finn McRedmond

PROSPECT MAGAZINE – MARCH 2026 PREVIEW

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PROSPECT MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Is the party over?’ In his first issue as editor, Philip Collins traces the collapse of traditional British political parties—and what happens next. Jen Stout examines what makes a Ukrainian traitor. Plus: behind the scenes of Ralph Fiennes’ operatic debut

How culture wars hurt the economy

Ben Ansell

What makes a traitor?

Jen Stout

Feminists against progress

James Bloodworth

From the heart: Ralph Fiennes and the making of ‘Eugene Onegin’

Fiammetta Rocco

The unknowable Vermeer

Christopher Bray

What would you give up for happiness?

Imogen West-Knights

NATIONAL REVIEW MAGAZINE – MARCH 2026 PREVIEW

NATIONAL REVIEW: The latest issue features ‘America At 250’

The Five Greatest Words in the Declaration

Gordon S. Wood

How the founding document made America.

America the Durable

Yuval Levin

How Americans underrate their achievement.

How Religious Liberty Sustained America

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

On the Founders’ first freedom.

What I Learned from the Founders

Richard Brookhiser

On politics, the people, and great men.

BEJING REVIEW MAGAZINE – JANUARY 22, 2026

BEJING REVIEW MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The Wheels Are Turning’ – Innovation shifts into motion, reshaping mindset, life and tomorrow….

When the ‘World’s Cop’ drops the rulebook

The end of an order and the scramble for what’s next?

China charts a new course for economic stability

China’s vision for an open world economy in a turbulent era

THE NEW WORLD MAGAZINE – JANUARY 15, 2026 PREVIEW

THE NEW WORLD MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Iran on the Ropes’….

The only path to Iranian revolution

The nation has changed out of all recognition since the Shah was deposed in 1979. There is now only one way that the country can enter the modern world – the state must crack

Trump’s dark age of spectacle and power

A president without decency or any interest in policy runs America like a TV show: gripping its audience with shocks, suspense and relentless action

Can MAGA tech firm Palantir be trusted to run Britain’s data?

It’s wildly overvalued, politically extreme and puts Trump first – but somehow has £1bn of deals to run Britain’s tech infrastructure

The press that thinks it’s the opposition

Westminster journalists are having a tantrum over No 10 briefings. But the real problems are their right wing bias and focus on gossip over policy

The tough guys who learned to love tyranny

For decades, US survivalists have warned about a future with troops on the street and plain-clothes goons disappearing the White House’s enemies. Now it’s all happening under Trump, they are silent

THE NEW STATESMAN MAGAZINE – JANUARY 9, 2025

What Trump wants

THE NEW STATESMAN: The latest issue features What Trump wants‘…

The age of invasion

How Trump’s new global strategy will assert Washington’s hemispheric ambitions By John Bew

Why Starmer won’t condemn Trump on Venezuela

Jeremy Corbyn, Clare Short, Robert D Kaplan and others reflect on the consequences of the Caracas attack By Ailbhe Rea

The world after Trump’s Venezuela gambit

By New Statesman

Fiona Hill: “The UK needs to think of its own sovereignty”

By Megan Gibson