With the US potentially allied to Russia over the fate of Ukraine, there needs to be a root and branch rethinking of British and European security
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The former senior diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall sees signs of Trumpist culture wars and a woeful lack of realism in the opposition leader's foreign policy set piece speech
The spread of war in Europe is now a greater possibility than it has been since the height of the Cold War, writes AC Grayling
Chris York explores the mood in the capital as Ukrainians try to make sense of the US President’s support for the Kremlin
The US President's suspension of all foreign aid is already having a devastating impact in war-torn Ukraine, reports George Llewelyn
“They get the one starving kid in Sudan that isn’t going to have a USAID bottle, and they make everything DOGE has done about the starving kid in Sudan.” — a White House official. I’ve been a USAID contractor for most of the last 20 years. Not a federal employee; a contractor. USAID does most […]
Why was Jack Posobiec, who has spread baseless Russian propaganda about the country, accompanying a US Treasury delegation visit to Ukraine?
Editorial from the March 2025 print edition of Byline Times
In late February 2022, I was walking on a street in Irkutsk (in the middle of Russian Siberia) when I met a former female student of mine who had just come from her work office. She was upset by the invasion of Ukraine but even more so by the attitude of some women in the Continue reading »
At some indeterminate point in the fairly recent past, citizens and leaders of most liberal democracies probably looked forward to a condition to be realized in the imaginable future that we can, for the sake of a convenient label, call Universal Scandinavia. The basic features ought to be obvious: employment and decent housing for all, […]