John Tolan
A too-short history of Islam
Islam: A New History from Muhammad to the Present by John Tolan
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Unholy war
The Kremlin’s actions contradict its image of itself
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer
Come together
Some political truths on which we can all agree
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice