Heirs to Byzantium
Unlike Putin, the British have never really understood the central importance of Constantinople to European history
The Fate of Hagia Sophia
Will Hagia Sophia’s Christian heritage survive under President Erdoğan’s ‘neo-Ottoman’ vision?
Assaulting statues
The history of iconoclasm offers deeper lessons than are on display in the current statue-toppling craze
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
In defence of the incredulous stare
To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
The hollowness of postliberalism
Its vagueness and sentimentality encourage political opportunism
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
Free speech defenders should practice what they preach
There should be no illiberal exception for anti-Zionist academics
