Islam
The meek inherit nothing
Islamism is increasingly held not to be a deviant from Islam, but an orthodox aim of the “religion of peace”
Understanding France’s newest terrorism
Lockdown interrupted terrorism, but the post-lockdown West is more permissive
The divisiveness of Five Pillars
The UK’s chief website for British Muslim news sows more division than unity
A calibrated campaign of genocide
Our leaders have let us down, so let’s resolve as individuals to end our dependency on the Chinese power wiping out the Uyghurs
Jobsworths home and away
The referee is a blessed form of jobsworth
The twin prophets of pessimism
The novelist and the philosopher linked by a common fascination with despair
The 15-minute bait and switch
15-minute cities mean restricted freedom and a town hall traffic-fine bonanza
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
A mum’s place is in the Irish constitution
Ireland’s constitution is rare in protecting mothers, so why change this?
Postcards from before the war
It is no longer possible to reflect upon Israeli culture as if the “Question of Palestine” could be brushed aside
Tragicomedy at the UN
The limp United Nations cannot be trusted to support the victims of tyranny
In praise of centibillionaires
When people are free to make a lot of money from new businesses, everybody wins
How to lose an empire
The rise and fall of the Sassoon family, whose yearning for social acceptance brought titles at the cost of success
Left and right hooks
Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak exchanged sloppy blows as Lee Anderson found a warm welcome in the stands
Fine art versus luxury goods
The auction houses’ love expensive brands
How to destroy football
“Blue cards” will only add to the confusion and subjective rulings we’re now seeing
Weak, flawed, limited; an opportunity missed
Sanghera really should have devoted more attention to the pre-Western history in Empireworld
