Robert Skidelsky

12th of March 2026 The vexed question of the place of politics in sport has surfaced yet again at the Winter Olympics in Milan.

Mar 05, 2026, The Spectator I.

Mar 03, 2026 Given the premise, it becomes easy to treat disparate events as mutually reinforcing confirmation of it, often yielding elaborate conspiracy theories.

Feb 26, 2026 Four years after the so-called full-scale invasion of Ukraine, it is very hard to disentangle oneself from all clichés, lies, and reflexes in which the war is entangled.

Feb 23, 2026 In his sophisticated 20 January address to the Davos World Economic Forum, Canada’s prime minister and former Bank of England governor Mark Carney offered an insight into the disintegration of the global economy which went well beyond the usu…

6 Feb, 2026 People love spy stories.

Note: May I draw your attention to my recent video appearances with Ian Proud, the Peacemonger and Glenn Diesen.

Jan 27, 2026 Note: Dear followers and subscribers, as promised, a feature which I hope will be fairly regular, called Paranoid Corner.

Jan 23, 2026 I The economics of John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) was built on his philosophy.

Jan 13, 2026 The following passages from the British Parliamentary debates on Ukraine on 7th and 11 January can be read as a kind of appendix to the debate between Critic and myself posted on 10th January.