Matthew Petti
Matthew Petti is a researcher based in Amman. He tweets at @matthew_petti
The aristocratic third worldism of the British Museum
“Hawai’i: a kingdom crossing oceans” rebukes American imperialism with traditional monarchy and noblesse oblige
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
The king and the boss
Turkish President Erdoğan is no fan of Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu — and vice versa
Inside the Iranian diaspora
How the US government and the FBI dealt with Sadeq Qotbzadeh and other opponents of Tehran in the time of the Shah
Don’t make Iran the new Ukraine
American hawks are pushing for war with Tehran
Most Read
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
Middle management in the Middle East
The war against Iran has emphasised the importance of deep leadership
The party of retailers
Labour’s drift from its union roots reveals the party no longer knows what — or who — it is for
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious
Britain’s AI gamble reeks of desperation
The government is betting it all on AI — it could lose our trousers
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
Jams, jellies and EU insanity
From toast to tungsten, the EU is an enemy of innovation
Crushing the real progressives
The Islamic Republic of Iran, now under fire from the demonic West, is the most progressive society on earth
