An uneasy peace amid the ruins
Four million citizens of Damascus remain uncertain of what the future will bring
Iran has been fatally misunderstood
The US and Israel were foolish to imagine that the Iranians would crumble
The city that forgot itself
The tortured twentieth-century history of the once cosmopolitan Thessaloniki
The melting pot that boiled over
Beirut was once a playground for the rich and famous, but now seemingly destined for decline
The new Ottomans
The fall and rise of Istanbul under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
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Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Tame Impala fails to impress
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Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
The big crunch
How university expansion failed to prepare Britain for the future
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”
There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
The Falklands tragedy
British weakness is endangering the Falklands
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto