David Patrikarakos
David Patrikarakos is the author of War in 140 Characters: How Social Media Is Reshaping Conflict in the Twenty-First Century (Basic Books). His book Nuclear Iran has just been reissued by I.B. Tauris. You can find him on Twitter at @dpatrikarakos
Borderland: Europe’s Eastern faultline
Rising tensions over gas fields in the Eastern Mediterranean are fuelled by Erdogan’s dream of expanding Turkey’s borders
Kemi Badenoch is a useful idiot
The former Secretary of State has a track record of advancing woke regulations
The first female President will be Republican
American conservatives are far less averse to assertive women than the political left
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Towards a shared Englishness
There is a third way between civic nationalism and ethno-nationalism
Gambling gifts
New reports on Labour and political donations miss the point
Why Trump triumphed
The Democrats had too many self-inflicted disadvantages to overcome
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
Consent isn’t everything
Protections against violent sexual encounters are being dismantled