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.
Will Syria’s Christians really be safe under HTS?
The evidence, alas, gives little cause for optimism
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
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
How EDI corrupts public life
It compels people to accept falsehoods in the name of equality
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
