Greg Falconer Articles

While Westminster gazed at its collective navel after the local elections and the Queen’s speech last week, the concentration of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere quietly exceeded the symbolic figure of 400 parts per million. It has become unfashionable to talk about...

In his 2010 treatise, ‘The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism’, French philosopher Pascal Bruckner mused on the way Europeans’ judgement of contemporary global issues is clouded by a perpetual self-loathing. Historical ‘original sins’ such as slavery or...

When it comes to foreign policy, the British public and the three main parties do not currently see eye-to-eye. Two recent polls, on military intervention and Europe respectively, suggest an ominous divergence between the mainstream political elite and the electorate...

We Brits can be a sensitive bunch, especially where Americans are involved. Before his West Point speech in December 1962, I doubt that Dean Acheson, President Truman’s secretary of state, considered for a second that what he was about to say would knock the...