Publication: Mainichi Shimbun

19.09.20 Publication: Mainichi Shimbun

Historians are divided by one quite fundamental debate. One school, who believe in what is often known as “the great man theory of history” holds that...

05.07.20 Publication: Mainichi Shimbun

After nearly three and a half years in office, we all know far more about how the Trump administration functions or doesn’t function than we knew about most...

24.05.20 Publication: Mainichi Shimbun

Last December, the government of my country, the UK, looked supremely powerful and confident. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Conservative Party had just...

12.04.20 Publication: Mainichi Shimbun

In the middle of a storm, it makes no sense to try to list what damage is going to be done as it rages onwards. We need to concentrate on staying dry and...

19.01.20 Publication: Mainichi Shimbun

Every year can be said to be important in the United States of America, for what happens in the world’s most powerful country affects us all. But this...

31.08.19 Publication: Mainichi Shimbun

In Europe, we are facing two political crises at the same time, both of which stimulate reflections on the nature of constitutions and the current populist...

21.07.19 Publication: Mainichi Shimbun

It was always inevitable, even before Britain handed back control of Hong Kong to China in 1997 after 99 years as a colony, that there would eventually be...

09.02.19 Publication: Mainichi Shimbun

We British used to talk proudly about how pragmatic, reasonable and logical we are, by comparison with what we have liked to see as our impractical,...

04.08.18 Publication: Mainichi Shimbun

What has emerged from the summits with Kim Jong-Un and Vladimir Putin is a mixture of the psychological and the geopolitical. The psychological element is not...

22.06.18 Publication: Mainichi Shimbun

A common saying among military men is that a country should never send troops into battle without having an exit strategy, a plan for how to end the conflict...

10.05.18 Publication: Mainichi Shimbun

The key question to ask oneself while we wait for the historic summit between Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s leader, and President Donald Trump of the United...

30.03.18 Publication: Mainichi Shimbun

How do you deal with a neighbour like Russia, which seems to enjoy breaking all sorts of rules, both legal ones and ethical ones? By economic sanctions? By...