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
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
This apology for a political comedy
Amusing as a war crimes trial, and seems to last twice as long
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation
The revolt against the public
The establishment cannot accept ordinary citizens having power
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
