Geopolitics The UK and France must mend ties – lives depend on it The French have lost all confidence in Boris Johnson – but the migrant crisis demands the relationship is rebuilt. By Peter Ricketts
The Afghanistan crisis has exposed Global Britain’s delusions of grandeur Airy assumptions of British exceptionalism have not survived their first contact with reality. By Peter Ricketts
Kim Darroch and the art of the diplomat Collateral Damage – Darroch’s warm and witty memoir of his time as the British ambassador in Donald Trump’s Washington… By Peter Ricketts
Haunted by the ghosts of 1940: why Britain is truly alone in the world The vote to leave the EU in 2016 drew on the deep well of nostalgia for the moment when… By Peter Ricketts
How British foreign policy lost the art of grand strategy As the UK emerges blinking into an uncertain post-Brexit dawn, what is its role in the world? By Peter Ricketts