Mehmet Çiftçi
Dr Mehmet Çiftçi is a writer and academic. He is the Public Bioethics Fellow at the Anscombe Centre in Oxford.
Old Ireland stirs
The defeat handed to Dublin’s progressive establishment was a reminder of an older Ireland
The beginning and end of conversation
A catholic sift through humankind’s advent and our eventual, formative babbling and beyond.
Commonwealth citizens should not be allowed to vote
Newly arrived non-citizens being allowed to vote makes a farce of British democracy
Making art of the Holocaust
As dramatic opera, The Passenger inhabits a grey zone of guard–prisoner relations
A neglected radical
Guillaume Guillon-Lethière was an artistic and social pioneer
Europe invaded
We must heed the warnings from Hungary and Poland about migration
Could Trump be a world leader?
His sense of his own importance might not be suited to isolationism
On the Cusk of austerity
A cerebral critic pleaser, a dramatic crowd pleaser, and a perennial favourite
Big town life
Force for progress, loyalist fortress, or den of iniquity — the English town has been all of these, and more
The UPF panic is a fad
Chris van Tulleken cannot seem to decide what an ultra-processed food even is