Tom Jones

Tom Jones is Deputy Online Editor of the Critic. He tweets at @93vintagejones

After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders

Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes

The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier

Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war

Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation

A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness

Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile

Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option

Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party

Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation