György Schöpflin
György Schöpflin was formerly Jean Monnet Professor of Politics at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL. He has also served as a Hungarian MEP for Fidesz.
A flawed analysis on the rise of transnational authoritarianism
György Schöpflin on Anne Applebaum’s Twilight of Democracy
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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
What the Brits can learn from Ireland
A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
Why are doctors special?
Doctors have a lot less to complain about than other workers
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Restore the King James Bible
Those who are opposed, please consider, in the bowels of Christ, whether you may be mistaken
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
The sickness of Sickfluencers
Social media and AI are enabling the exploitation of our benefits system
