Dr Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri leads public affairs Demos, the leading UK cross-party think tank. He holds a Research Fellowship at the University of Aberdeen and has served as a political adviser in the House of Lords and the Council of Europe. He writes on history and politics for The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator, Engelsberg Ideas, and The Critic. His book on Edmund Burke and the British Empire is forthcoming from Boydell & Brewer.