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Why we don’t remember pandemics
notebook
Challenging the ‘Great Reset’ theory of pandemics
essays
Wise warnings matter even more in this age of pandemics and big data
essays
Counting the cost of the 1918-19 pandemic
essays
2020: Putting our pandemic in perspective
essays
EI Weekly Listen — Hew Strachan on the cost of the 1918-19 pandemic
podcasts
EI Weekly Listen – Mark Honigsbaum: Challenging the ‘Great Reset’ theory of pandemics
podcasts
Art, History and Pandemics with Tom Holland
podcasts
Geopolitics of a pandemic
essays
This crisis has the capacity to be apocalyptic
essays
EI Weekly Listen – Helen Thompson: Geopolitics of a pandemic
podcasts
Ancient lessons for modern crisis
essays
Cats rule
notebook
How to do statecraft
essays
The endless frontier
essays
Doing our duty at home and abroad — A Duty of Care: Britain Before and After Covid by Peter Hennessy review
book-review
China: The great uncoupling
essays
The empty metropolis
essays
Rediscovering Germany
notebook
Meet the Zoomer generation
essays
Future proof
essays
Why we make lists
notebook
Are we ready for the new humans?
book-review
Working From Anywhere — the holiday never stops
notebook
The demon of the house
notebook
The People’s Republic of SF
essays
Three victories and a defeat
essays
Globalisation: why it went into retreat
essays
What is England really made of?
book-review
What the Romans did for fun
notebook
Covid-19 and the moral case for personal judgement
essays
Fighting back against Russia — the return of propaganda
notebook
Learning from Asian philosophies of rebirth
essays
Playing with demons — how thought experiments guide scientific innovation
essays
In praise of music’s uselessness
notebook
Rewriting Spanish history, one song at a time
essays
Britain’s war requiem
essays
From the Silk Road to the information superhighway
essays
Time running out in China’s waiting game — The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order by Rush Doshi review
book-review
How Arcadia was won and lost and found again
essays
Globalisation — lessons from George Canning on how to remake trade
essays
The intelligent use of history — what is the past good for?
essays
The possibility of elsewhere
notebook
Resilient London will regenerate
notebook
The History of Quarantine with Lincoln Paine
podcasts
How Taiwan won the semiconductor race
notebook
Liberty at risk as threats to freedom grow
essays
Mustang: the heart of Nepal’s China dream
notebook
The invention of Catherine the Great
essays
Books of the Year 2023
book-review
The secret to Byzantium’s success
book-review
The Singapore way
essays
An uncertain idea of Britain
notebook
The Australian way of war and peace
essays
A Year in Ideas
essays
Turin’s touch of the divine
notebook
Chamonix’s Sea of Ice — warning to a warming world
notebook
The lost art of listening
notebook
In search of Proustian little moments that make life worthwhile
notebook
Great Books: E.M. Forster’s The Machine Stops
book-review
The shifting fortunes of IS-Khorasan
book-review
The American dream making a come back
notebook
China rethinking its role
essays
Troubled waters
essays
Her Great Quality
notebook
Confucius, competition and modern China’s misuse of meritocracy
essays
We were on a break
notebook
Classics in the cul-de-sacs
notebook
Good poetry in a crisis
notebook
First orders please
notebook
Nepal’s shifting loyalties — All Roads Lead North: China, Nepal and the Conquest for the Himalayas by Amish Raj Mulmi review
book-review
Robert Adam and building beautiful
essays
Do we really know what war is anymore? — The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide To The New Way of War by Mark Galeotti review
book-review
Inauguration and the power of American ritual
notebook
When artists retrain
notebook
The geopolitical fight to come over green energy
essays
When disaster strikes
essays
Battling for the best and brightest: immigration, great power rivalry, and the history of talent importation
essays
More than a bandstand
notebook
Missing the theatre of everyday life
notebook
Space and the new struggle for civilisational supremacy
essays
The Germans and their cars: history of a love affair
essays
A world without glamorous Shanghai is the poorer for it
notebook
Towards an Arcadian future
essays
Nature through the eyes of two Victorians: a birdwatcher and his big-game hunting brother
essays
The Elizabethan era is laid to rest
essays
How Elizabeth II created the role of the modern monarch
notebook
A very medieval cost of living crisis
notebook
Breaking the nuclear taboo
essays
Sanctions as potent yet unwieldy weapons of war
book-review
The year the West woke up
essays
What does Xi Jinping really think?
essays
Trust is the key to geopolitical strength
essays
The price of freedom
essays
The future of war is here
essays
The vitality of Western civilisation
essays
Pulling at the threads of astrology
notebook
What is the British Army for?
notebook
Locked arms: looming threats to the Romania-NATO partnership
notebook
Pensions in a time of kings
notebook
Hacktivism’s Cold War Turns Hot
essays
China-US rivalry risks dividing the EU
essays
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin — the first and only British woman to win a Nobel Prize in science
portraits
The ever-changing face of Istanbul
notebook
Epitaph on a mafioso’s grave
notebook
The ins and outs of the European project
book-review
Polycrisis? What polycrisis?
notebook
An endless dialogue between past and present
essays
Securing Scandinavia
notebook
Europe’s eastward march
essays
Explaining the Golden Era
notebook
The West needs to wake up
essays
Fay Schopen, 1975-2023
notebook
The many meanings of the age of upheaval
essays
A deep history of Canadian populism
essays
India sends Modi a message
notebook
How the British elite lost its way
essays
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