Islamic State
The horror of greetings inflation
Social niceties today demand a performative jeremiad on the state of the world
Unholy politics and a Christian exodus
Middle Eastern Christians are facing the threat of extinction
Mission Accomplished
Finley Harnett reviews the BBC’s Once Upon a Time in Iraq
Turkey: neither Neo-Ottoman nor Universal Islamist
Western leaders are misconstruing the nature of Turkey’s government and its mission at home and abroad
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders
Will Andy Burnham be a literary leader?
Burnham is a rare politician who reads books — but how will they affect his premiership?
Confessions of a Yankee Anglophile
For all our differences, Americans and Britons will never be too far apart
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Standing up for cultural freedom
We must follow the example of brave artists who oppose censorship
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom