Joseph Sassoon
Joseph Sassoon is Professor of History an Politics at Georgetown University. The Global Merchants: Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty is published by Penguin
How to lose an empire
The rise and fall of the Sassoon family, whose yearning for social acceptance brought titles at the cost of success
The Conservatives must return to the centre
Populist demagoguery has ruined the party
Has Badenoch peaked?
No one should assume they know who will be the next Conservative leader
You are being nudged
State-sponsored psychological manipulation is becoming ubiquitous
Against literary celebriphilia
We need interesting authors, not “big names”
Whither the RIBA’s drawings?
Maverick John Harris embarked on the closest Britain has ever got to an architecture museum
Misappropriating motherhood
La Leche League and the pornification of breastfeeding
Keir Starmer cannot ignore us
The gender debate is not going to disappear
WHO do they think they are?
Politicians should be more sceptical about ideology packaged as “public health”