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Lord Slippery of Tripoli proves almost daily that he is the man in this country who is most strongly unqualified to be Foreign Secretary. Last week he annoyed the Americans by telling them to shower money for munitions on to Ukraine.I…

Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NatoBy Peter Apps(Wildfire £25, 624pp)During the freezing depths of the Cold War, 40 years ago, I pestered friends in Brussels to get me some Nato bumper stickers to put on my car. I wanted to…

BOOK OF THE WEEKThe Wizard of the Kremlinby Giuliano da Empoli, translated by Willard Wood (Pushkin Press £16.99, 304pp)Nobody ever says how beautiful Moscow is. Yet I have never lived anywhere so full of myth and sinister glamour.That…