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
Banks, bikes and choppers
Banks should be like activist investors and intervene early rather than pull loans hastily
The tide has turned on abortion
The overturning of Roe v Wade is an opportunity for the UK to reflect on its own abortion laws
Bad Law Project?
The good, the bad, and the ugly of crowdfunding legal cases
Steals on wheels
Women are having their cycling podium places stolen from under their noses by trans-identified men
Don’t blame Britain
Obsessing over the sins of empire only serves to hide the flaws of dysfunctional modern states
The Critic Books Podcast: Latchkey Ladies
Marjorie Grant’s novel was out of print for over a century
The strange afterlife of New Atheism
The once dominant internet and media phenomenon has given way to more agile secularisms, but its legacy lives on
Is banning conversion therapy legal?
Government plans still have serious questions of law to answer
We have forgotten the titans of British cinema
It has fallen to Scorsese to rescue the reputation of Powell and Pressburger
The BBC can’t fix its class problems with quotas
The Corporation’s diversity obsession is the problem, not the solution
Boris brings up the rear
The prime minister is consistent only in his untidiness and unpreparedness