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"
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
Renewing academia
The Centre for Heterodox Social Science represents a positive alternative to a field increasingly dominated by progressive ideology
We’re all living in America
Britain’s elite is obsessed with Trump and the States, when it needs to concentrate on the Home Front
Brussels, capital city of Surrealism
In Brussels, Surrealism lurks in the most unexpected places
Red dawn
Following the locals, a shattered Conservative party will need to get used to losing
Schrödinger’s sex binary
We have to resist the mass gaslighting of women and girls
Why tech execs don’t give their kids phones
Gen Z’s brains have been “rewired” by the online world —can they be restored to factory settings?
Don’t forget Armenia
Armenians, once the target of genocide, are under threat again
“Moral debt” is classic watermelon politics
Do left-wing economists believe that there is anything to which wealth redistribution is not the answer?
A sound of Rowling thunder
Scotland’s government and police seem determined to turn themselves into a laughing stock
Love in a remotely-controlled climate
If we outsource our decisions to
machines, we will be less capable
of navigating our own feelings
Do hurt people hurt people?
This popular cliché attempts to be generous but ends up implying that victims are tainted