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When it comes to war, diplomacy is not the coward’s way out. It takes action and bravery, not passivity or resignation, to resolve conflict. The world does not lack wisdom, but sometimes it lacks the resolution to apply it…

Oh dear, things were so much fairer when a well-instructed prime minister — say, Harold Macmillan choosing Michael Ramsey — simply made the appointment himself. Without bureaucracy, the established Church sort of worked. With…

I understand the often-cited case for assisted dying — that we should not deny terminally ill people the freedom to choose. But there is no effective freedom to choose if the alternative option, the freedom to draw on…