Michael Karam
Michael Karam is the editor of “Tears of Bacchus: A history of winemaking in the Arab World”. He's a journalist and award-winning wine writer. He is a lover of Lebanese food and drink, cigars, whisky and watches.
Our man in Beirut
The “Glorious Dead” are often only “Glorious” when it suits us
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The strange birth of woo-woo
The glitzy LA supermarket chain and the Buddhist food cult behind your wellness smoothie
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
Who will pound longest?
America has military might — but does it have the appetite for war?
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures
Form your battalions!
France, for all its flaws, still converts military spending into power — Britain does not
Unreadable red bile
This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous
