Michael O’Shea
Michael O’Shea is an American-Polish writer and translator. He is a Danube Institute visiting international fellow. He tweets at @Michael_F_OShea
Hey, Foreign Office, leave Slovakia alone
The UK’s activist foreign policy has been unmasked in Slovakia
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Wunderbar wines
The love affair between British and German wine is an ancient one
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Sir David Attenborough at sea
RRS Sir David Attenborough is a ship worthy of the great man’s name
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia
The return of a luxury lingerie brand
La Perla isn’t about the male gaze; it’s about feminine feel
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
