John Lloyd

John Lloyd was a domestic and foreign correspondent for the Financial Times and a co-founder of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

63 Posts

Mario Draghi is a middle-aged Italian man with glasses.

Fragile Europe, On Its Own

European leaders are struggling to cope with the multiple crises now facing the beleaguered continent.

John Lloyd

16 Dec 2024 · 8 min read

Justin Welby is a white man in his 60s with glasses in the robes of an archbishop with a large cross around his neck.

The Church at a Crossroads

Whoever becomes the next Archbishop of Canterbury will face the arduous task of uniting the now-radicalised wings of the Church of England.

John Lloyd

20 Nov 2024 · 10 min read

Trump in a red tie walks through blue curtains looking chuffed.

Europe Awaits Trump II

The president-elect’s arrival in the White House will likely galvanise the European New Right and doom the Ukrainian resistance.

John Lloyd

11 Nov 2024 · 8 min read

The Last of the Human Warriors

Advancing technology is changing the way we fight wars and our understanding of heroism.

John Lloyd

4 Nov 2024 · 6 min read

A Half-Serious Man

Boris Johnson got a couple of critical things right, but he never could or would have become a good prime minister.

John Lloyd

22 Oct 2024 · 12 min read

A Muslim woman in London wearing a niqab, using a mobile phone while shopping on Oxford Street.

The Muslim Choice: Integration or Confrontation

Liberalising trends within Islam are facing resistance from radicals committed to a narrative of victimhood and grievance.

John Lloyd

3 Sep 2024 · 33 min read

Totems and Taboos

A cancelled academic has produced a fine new book about the threat posed by progressive pieties.

John Lloyd

6 Aug 2024 · 9 min read

Marine Le Pen with a concerned look on her face surrounded by a crowd of press in Paris.

A Question of Legitimacy

The Rassemblement National was thwarted by a coalition of convenience, but it remains the party with the largest grip on French voters.

John Lloyd

12 Jul 2024 · 10 min read

Now Comes the Hard Part

The UK’s new Labour government enjoys a huge mandate, but it must contend with imposing challenges at home and abroad.

John Lloyd

9 Jul 2024 · 14 min read

Sin and Social Science

Glenn Loury’s startlingly frank confessional memoir offers a complex portrait of a brilliant scholar and a profoundly flawed man.

John Lloyd

24 Jun 2024 · 14 min read

Health Secretary Humza Yousaf listens as First Minister Nicola Sturgeon presents her government's Programme for Government

Very Bad Government

From the beginning, the SNP leadership has skilfully papered over its failures and absurdities with soaring rhetoric of the better life to come once Scotland is “free.”

John Lloyd

3 May 2024 · 11 min read

Nostalgia for Confinement

Why are some in Russia and Eastern Europe pining for the communist system that once oppressed them?

John Lloyd

18 Apr 2024 · 8 min read

Keir Starmer and the red rose symbol of the UK Labour Party.

What Is the Labour Party For?

Sir Keir Starmer looks likely to become Britain’s next prime minister at a time when the democratic centre-left everywhere is facing a crisis of definition.

John Lloyd

26 Mar 2024 · 8 min read

Alexei Navalny 1976–2024

The life and death of a complex and courageous dissident.

John Lloyd

23 Feb 2024 · 14 min read

Lights Out in America

The cowardice at America’s most important liberal publications is damaging democracy.

John Lloyd

5 Jan 2024 · 12 min read