Lionel Barber
Informed commentary on media and politics in an upside-down age, from the former editor of the Financial Times (2005–2020).
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The death of American diplomacy
Deal-making and agitprop replace the art of statecraft
The other day I came across a remarkable statistic. More than half of all US ambassadorships remain unfilled, with 109 vacant out of 195 worldwide. Wars are raging in Ukraine and the M...
Britain's free speech crisis
Elon Musk, JD Vance, Tucker Carlson and the rest of the MAGA crew are dead wrong about Britain. There is a free speech crisis, but it has little to do with woke campuses, daffy public service broadcasters or the 2023 Online Safety Act. The...
Tony Blair’s home truths
Labour is playing with fire - and the world is watching
Tony Blair has lobbed a grenade into the men’s room gender-neutral toilets at the Labour party.
How to fix the UK
End the economic illiteracy of price controls, state ownership and soaking the rich
I SPENT this morning listening to the King of the North. Nope, not Andy Burnham, the soft-left mayor of Manchester. He may be the bookies’ favourite to suc...
The curse of Long Brexit
Since the 2016 Brexit referendum, the UK has been a case study in political instability. Six prime ministers in 10 years, on top of six foreign secretaries, five defence secretaries, eight chancellors and five Cabinet secretaries. Toppling...
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