America 1) Bim Afolami: Yes, the United States is withdrawing from its role abroad. So we need to reinvigorate our alliances.

We need to rethink our foreign policy not in the world we would like, but in the world we actually live in.

A day to honour George Herbert Walker Bush

This article was originally published on the anniversary of the former President’s election. We re-issue it today as news comes of his death.

Richard Black: Now is the time for the UK to lead NATO

We should not only meet our spending minimum, but exceed it in order to maximise our vital strategic and tactical needs.

A day to honour George Herbert Walker Bush, America’s best living former President

He governed in the shadow of Reagan, and lost his re-election bid. But he achieved much at home, even more abroad – and makes Trump look like a moral dwarf.

Obama and Brexit. Play the ball, not the man.

Ranting and raving about his shortcomings is more likely to turn off the floating voters needed to win the referendum than otherwise.

Garvan Walshe: Europe’s far left: Good for Putin, dangerous to democracy

To Hungary and Cyprus, Putin appears to have added a third, slightly less marginal, ally – Greece. Will Spain be next?