Christopher Phillips

The United States has a history of mistaking defeats in war for victories. In 1973, Richard Nixon declared his administration had achieved a “Peace…

Less than a month old, the Iran war has already been talked of as an epochal, transformative moment in world geopolitics. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in…

Is the world on the brink of a global conflagration? The US-Israel attack on Iran has sparked panic in some quarters. A Telegraph headline on 7 March…

The US, it seems, is back in the ‘regime change’ business. Despite his past promises to “stop the reckless and costly policy of regime change,”…

Four years after Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, it’s clear that the war has been transformative. Obviously, the most…

Western states’ warming ties with China would have been hard to imagine a few years ago. It was only in May 2023 that the G7, at President Joe Biden…

The United States has long been accused of being an ‘empire’. Whether conquering indigenous lands on its own continent, capturing Spanish territory…

The first quarter of the 21st century is coming to an end, and global politics looks quite different to how it did when crowds gathered across the…

The fall of the Sudanese city of El-Fasher in November led to horrendous reports of mass killing. In recent days, British parliamentarians were told…

Within a few days of each other, France and Germany have moved to revive National Service in the face of Russia’s growing military threat. In late…