Martin Parsons
Dr Martin Parsons was an aid worker in Afghanistan and is now an independent consultant on Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB), worldwide persecution of Christians, and radical Islam.
Nigeria’s climate of terror
Militant religion, not just climate change, is fuelling violence in Nigeria
The freedom to live out your faith
Qatar proves we need a new definition of freedom of religion
The UN must not ignore Afghan religious minorities
They live under the threat of elimination
The truth about the Grand Mufti’s visit to the UK
Shakwi Allam speaks the language of religious pluralism to western audiences, but sanctions persecution within Egypt
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
Britain is at breaking point
The UK is experiencing existential challenges, but neither elitists nor populists offer a solution
Developing nations will be forced to choose
Sitting on the fence between China and the USA is unsustainable
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
Oxford elects
Meet the denizens of Oxford’s disenchanted garden currently competing for the university’s top sinecure
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism