Dubai
The shadowy economics of fentanyl
One professor is investigating how the deadly drug trade works — and how it might be fought
The rise of Arabofuturism
History is being forged in the Middle East
Gangsters by the Gulf
Dubai and the rise of organised crime
Godfather of British geopolitics
The revolutionary global thinking of an Edwardian academic continues to shape attitudes today
Conscious decoupling
Some people consider ideas on their own terms; for others they are inextricable from context
The other Camus
The controversial author’s work is filled not just with anger but with autumnal regret
This is not where I live at all
Cynthia Erivo’s slighting of Sunderland was indicative of British arts establishment beholden to a homogenous, Americanised vision of culture
Hollowed-out Humanities
The tyranny of DEI, the canard of “decolonisation” and the rise of the bureaucrats
Against gorpcore
We have to develop and embrace aesthetics that inspire the imagination
TransForming London
You deserve to be inclusioned in London’s progressive future
Irish politicians have lost touch with the people
The failed “modernisation” of the Constitution may not be a one-off failure for Irish liberals
The scandal of screens
Parents are ill-equipped to fight the power of Big Tech over children’s lives — they desperately need the law to be on their side
Good cops and bad spies
Intelligence services as portrayed on-screen are pretty ghastly places to work
Well, well, well
The amazing discovery of a thousand Orvieto pots in a water shaft
