Lord Robert Skidelsky’s Substack

Ukraine: The Trial

Note: The essay is a bit long, but I haven't seen any other attempt to confront the two arguments, pro and anti-Putin and pro and anti-Trump, directly…

Sep 16 • 

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Defence Industrial Strategy - Wednesday 10 September 2025

Note: This is a follow-up to my oral question on Ukraine of 9th September, which I have previously circulated. It is a telling example of the…

Sep 12 • 

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Ukraine Question in Parliament

September 9th 2025

Sep 12 • 

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August 2025

Europe’s Population Quandary

Technocratic solutions obscure what is fundamentally a problem of ethos.

Aug 12 • 

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July 2025

Strategic Defence Review Debate - House of Lords

Note: I post below my speech of 18 July in the House of Lords on Britain’s Strategic Defence Review.

Jul 22 • 

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Humans and Machines: Heaven or Hell?

The following post is an amalgam of recent talks I have given on some of the ideas in my latest book, The Machine Age. This book has been published so…

Jul 13 • 

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June 2025

Debate: Could war in Ukraine have been avoided?

"Robert Skidelsky argues that the West is partly to blame and John Lough argues that it is not"

Jun 27 • 

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The Economic Consequences of Rearmament

Note: This is the post promised last week about the economic consequences of European rearmament.

Jun 19 • 

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Should Europe Rearm?

Note: Below is the first of two posts criticising Britain’s recent Strategic Defence Reviews’ call for British and European rearmament.

Jun 10 • 

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1984 Revisited

Robert Skidelsky and Attila Mesterházy Jr.

Jun 5 • 

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May 2025

Robots as Weapons of War

Note: In my last post on military Keynesianism, I warned against the use of fake threats to justify increased military spending.

May 27 • 

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Military Keynesianism?

Note: John Maynard Keynes believed that governments should run fiscal deficits when necessary to stimulate growth and employment.

May 15 • 

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