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
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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
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
Not so good after all
Can left-leaning journalists finally acknowledge the challenges British society faces?
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
Making the case for liberalism
Wooldridge’s polemic draws together the disparate traditions of liberal thought and action
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
