Structural dangers articles
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Football, snooker and the dangers of over-regulation
Whether it’s the gambling white paper putting advertisers off snooker or plans for a new football regulator, our favourite sports risk being legislated out of existence, says Emma Revell When it comes to my two favourite sports, this week has been a game of two halves. On one hand, I’m a long-suffering Sunderland fan. With []
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Australia is in danger of tearing itself apart
In her new book, Liz Truss says she likes Australia and Australians. The country is, she says, ‘like Britain without…What to read next: The Sydney church terror attack is a wake-up call for Australians | The unimaginable tragedy of the Sydney stabbing attack | What happened to the Glasgow I love? | Scrapping replays could be the beginning of the end for the FA Cup
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A Putin collapse? The dangers of wishful thinking
The Carnegie Center’s Maksim Samorukov recently published an article in Foreign Affairs entitled “Putin’s brittle regime. Like the Soviet one that preceded it, his system is always on the brink of collapse.” The argument is driven by a straightforward historical analogy. The Soviet system appeared strong and immutable, and virtually no one predicted its collapse. But collapse it did. Likewise, the Putin system appears strong and resilient, and few people can imagine its collapse. But collapse it...