Nicholas Lorimer
Nicholas Lorimer, a politician-turned-think tank thinker, is the IRR's Geopolitics Researcher and is host of the Daily Friend Show. His interests include geopolitics, and history (particularly medieval and ancient history). He is an unashamed Americaphile, whether it be food, culture or film. His other pursuits include video games and armchair critique of action films from the 1980s.
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This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. May 23rd 1430 – Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians
This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 8th May 1846 – American forces led by Zachary Taylor defeat
This Week in History is a new weekly feature recalling memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. May 7th 1945 – Germany surrenders, ending Second
The future under EWC
Much of the ‘land reform’ expropriation debate relies on hypotheticals or predictions – but in the last quarter of 2019 I had a glimpse of
Killing of Qasem Soleimani might open the door to peace
On 4 January, the world awoke to news that Qasem Soleimani, an important Iranian military commander, had been killed in an American Reaper drone strike
Greta, the children’s crusader
In the early spring of 1212 crusading fever was sweeping Europe. Many speculated (as they always did) that the return of Christ was imminent and
China and its challenge to Western liberal thought
The rise of Asia’s economies since the 1980s delivers an ideological challenge few Western thinkers have been willing to acknowledge, despite the moral imperative of
The coalition temptation, and the perils
The good governance brand of the Democratic Alliance (DA) is vulnerable to the compromises that come with coalition politics, the Johannesburg experience shows. The Institute