Iraq
The American position in the Middle East courts peril
Keeping US troops in Iraq and Syria is too much of a gamble
What awaits the IDF
Memories of unforgiving urban combat in a tank
Mission accomplished? (with Ben Sixsmith and Sebastian Milbank)
Assessing the Iraq War and its ongoing effects
Remembering Iraq
We still feel the consequences of that disastrous war
How were we so wrong?
The Iraq invasion was never more than folly
Unholy politics and a Christian exodus
Middle Eastern Christians are facing the threat of extinction
Iraq’s year of assassinations
Power operates within a militia movement in which no one is invulnerable
The BBC feeds us bad science
We can’t even trust the Beeb to tell us about the basic facts of motherhood
Do not sanction the truth
Stating biological facts should not be cause for heavy-handed complaints proceedings
The EU’s war on Hungary
As news breaks of secret EU plans to cripple the Hungarian economy, who can still believe it respects national sovereignty?
Sleepwalking towards abolishing abortion law
How can a crime be a crime if it implies no consequences?
Italian lessons
On matching the sauce to the pasta
Is Britain on course for abortion up to birth?
Diana Johnson’s amendment creates a medical and legal vacuum that would endanger women and their babies
He’ll never let the old flag fall
Lee Anderson will never stand for insult, especially the insult of never being invited round for dinner
Giants and pygmies
Some stop-gap leaders of the opposition were never intended to be potential prime ministers
The left-wing defence of free speech
A recent book mounts a rare and powerful, if partly flawed, case for free expression from the Left
Conscious decoupling
Some people consider ideas on their own terms; for others they are inextricable from context
Democracy contra the majority
What does democracy mean if it is not related to the popular will?
