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The history of effective political change is one of ideas and competence, says Professor Geoff Mulgan. And now is the time for British leaders to show it.

Is Europe really increasingly polarising? A few recent academic studies seem to have evidence that suggests the opposite. How is that for a polarising opinion?

Comparisons between post-communist Albania and current-day Ukraine are fascinating — and make many pertinent parallels. Ukrainians have a similar determination to belong to "the rest of Europe" as Albanians.

In the immediate aftermath of Russias invasion of Ukraine, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz discarded decades of German foreign policy tradition and upended his own partys approach to Russia. Since then? Crickets.

Helmut K. Anheier reviews four books that shed much-needed light on widely shared crises of collective and individual identity.