Henry Kissinger

How to avoid another world war

A Ukrainian soldier inspects the shell of a tank in the north-eastern city of Trostyanets [Fadel Senna, AFP via Getty Images]
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Henry Kissinger has died at the age of 100. He was the US Secretary of State under Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, and was one of the most powerful and influential people of the 20th and 21st century.

He wrote the following piece for The Spectator for our Christmas issue last year.

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