By Rory E. Riley-Topping, veterans’ advocate and TES Contributor The sentiment “horror vaccui,” which translates to “nature abhors a vacuum,” is usually attributed to Aristotle. The phrase loosely means that if you take something away, something else will naturally end up filling that space. In terms of military and foreign policy, […]
All self-respecting people hate clickbait, the lowest form of content on the Internet (aside perhaps from “reporting” on Justice Kavanaugh’s college years) — but if we’re going to be honest, most of us have fallen for it at some point. And that is part […]
Between Vladimir Putin’s aggression in Crimea and Ukraine, the attempted assassinations of former Russian spies on British soil, and Russia’s control of a large proportion of Europe’s energy supply, Russia provides Western liberals plenty of reasons to be concerned. But they must be careful not to neglect an important group of victims of authoritarian repression: […]