Gerard Russell
Gerard Russell is the author of Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East.
Unholy politics and a Christian exodus
Middle Eastern Christians are facing the threat of extinction
Israel off the leash
For Benjamin Netanyahu, continuing the war is a matter of political survival, and he goes to America to raise support, not to listen to calls for peace
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
Night of the ghost fascism
If a far right protest is rumoured but no one turns up, can it be counter-protested?
The Church of England’s race to the bottom
The Church of England should not be putting ideology before history
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
Is Starmer the anti-Thatcher?
He does not have the right ambition and imagination
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
The empty road to serfdom
“Vision Zero” is a tyrannical anti-driving dream
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
An optimistic history of women’s rights
Sexed: A History of British Feminism. Susanna Rustin