Mark Almond
Mark Almond is Director of the Crisis Research Institute, Oxford. He has been a Visiting Professor at Bilkent University, Ankara, and the Hagia Sophia controversy concludes his book, "Secular Turkey - A Short History"
Grace under pressure?
How effective have high-risk media events been for French foreign policy?
Two Cheers for Nuclear Proliferation
An obsession with the dangers of proliferation overlooks its positive effects
NATO’s at war with itself
Russia looks set to enjoy the fragility of its great adversary, the Atlantic Alliance
Erdogan’s Hagia Sophia move
Turkey has gone from darling of the EU, to Germany’s worst nightmare
The Conservatives must reject Human Quantitative Easing
It has been a disaster for the party and for the nation
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
The death of conservatism?
Individually and collectively, we must choose life
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
Donald Trump doesn’t know what a woman is, either
Believing that the sexes are different does not mean appreciating their humanity in full
Death on demand?
Euthanasia offers only bad choices to the most vulnerable patients
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Sinn Féin sullied the cenotaph
Apologists for terrorism should have had nothing to do with Remembrance Sunday