Iran
Can the Iranian protests succeed?
The world should pay attention
Christians are being jailed in Iran
Religious persecution is growing more severe
This is not the time to appease Iran
Iranians are risking their lives to bring down their theocratic regime
Revolutions and revelations
An epic bike ride from London to Tehran sheds light on links between the East and West
Iran’s hostage diplomacy
The UK Government’s reluctance to acknowledge Iran’s hostility shows the bizarre lengths to which countries must now go to appease Iran
Iran’s nuclear conspiracy theories
Fantastical elements of the ‘cyberattack’ on Iran do nothing but delay the inevitable: a bomb is still coming — just not quite yet
Yemen’s ceasefire is a sham — the war is far from over
Recent developments in Yemen’s civil war show that the Iranian-backed Houthis are clearly considered the winning side
The assassination of Soleimani
The Arab Spring didn’t amount to much, but when the US killed Soleimani last year it was a unexpectedly positive counterpoint
Iraq’s year of assassinations
Power operates within a militia movement in which no one is invulnerable
The fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
Fruitful discussion
Hannah’s Children is a sharp retort to assumptions about barefoot, bread-baking women harassed by scores of children and domineering husbands
How NatCon was saved
An attempted cancellation flopped in Brussels — but the bad taste remains
Higher education, lower standards
Why are our universities in decline?
Parklife people
This book has a brilliant premise but, frustratingly, it doesn’t quite work
Grizelda Buncome
Peripatetic creative writing tutor
Flawed paean to a heartless auteur
A lack of empathy goes to the hollowness at the heart of so many Kubrick movies
Marshalling India’s maharajahs
Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States by John Zubrzycki
Netherworld
The Dutch golden age could be anything but for the painters
Don’t tell feminists what our priorities should be
We know the seriousness of the issues that affect us, thank you
Bevis Marks Synagogue
Britain’s oldest purpose-built synagogue faces a new, more insidious threat
