NEW YORK — Democracy is back on policymakers’ minds. US President Joe Biden plans to host a summit on the theme, and invitations to a host of events on democracy and human rights fill my inbox.This renewed focus is not good news.

LONDON — For much of its life, the United Nations has hidden behind the comfortable maxim that, “If we didn’t have it, we would have to invent it.” Now at the venerable age of 75, old enough to have been a 2020 US presidential candidate, the organisation still enjoys widespread a

LONDON — Britain’s long-running Brexit saga has thrown up a new argument.

LONDON — Nowadays, Britain’s words and actions on the world stage are so at odds with its values that one must wonder what has happened to the country.