Iason Athanasiadis
Iason Athanasiadis is a Mediterranean-focused multimedia journalist based between Athens, Istanbul, and Tunis
The new Ottomans
The fall and rise of Istanbul under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
The beginning and end of conversation
A catholic sift through humankind’s advent and our eventual, formative babbling and beyond.
The Conservative love affair with petty prohibitionism
How much time has been wasted on trivial legislation?
Why there has been no Street life
G.E. Street built or restored 113 churches for the Oxford diocese alone
Turn down that bloody music
Historic occasions shouldn’t be ruined by narcissistic prats
Rosemary Sutcliff
A writer of genius, capable of conveying the feelings and lives of those who lived in the distant past
What Trump gets right about NATO
There needs to be a shifting in the balance of responsibility from America to Europe
Fighting lies with lies
What depths will we need to go to in order to tackle disinformation in our own time?
So, farewell then Humza
One man was very impressed with Humza Yousaf’s resignation speech
The publisher and the police
The case of Ernest Moret has drawn attention to a sinister abuse of power
Polls at the pics
Films offer windows into the British and American political processes
On She/Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Yousaf resigns and Lavery is maligned in another weird week of Scullionbait