Middle East
June letters
Hard power is the only currency that is truly respected
Every argument for Israel
Answering the case against Israel point-by-point
The new Ottomans
The fall and rise of Istanbul under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Alcohol and Islam
An English novelist travels the Muslim world in search of a drink
What is Britain getting into in Yemen?
We have seen too many disastrous interventions to be confident now
Against the neoconservative case for Israel
British foreign policy should put British interests first
Gaza and hope
Amidst the horrors, could there be some signs of future peace?
God is in the details even of secular history
The story of the Middle East cannot be explained without religion
Haunting Ghosts
Two timely dramatisations of espionage in the Middle East
The rise of Arabofuturism
History is being forged in the Middle East
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates
Starmer’s tax will hurt children
It is not just a tax, it is cruel theft
Leave our pubs alone
New public health proposals are missing the pint
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
What women have lost
How can women focus on traditional feminist issues when spiteful men are demanding to be included?
The crisis at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre
Serious as it is, it is no anomaly
Franco-Irish vigour
Augusta Holmès: Symphonic poems (CPO)
The porn Olympics
Porn puts young men and women in a degrading race that most of them are doomed to lose — so why are athletes lending it credibility?
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
Royals in an online age
Can the royal mystique survive the glare of modern media?
The uneasy aftermath of the Austrian elections
Will the Austrian establishment close ranks against the Freedom Party?
