Politics
Conflict in the Caucasus
How much worse will the historic conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh get?
Are conservatives losing?
Conservative parties may be good at winning elections but have they lost the argument?
The divisiveness of Five Pillars
The UK’s chief website for British Muslim news sows more division than unity
New Zealand’s election & the nation’s mother
ACT’s former leader explains why in Saturday’s general election the free market party is likely to see its best ever result
Indira Gandhi: a gift from the gods?
How India’s first – and only – female prime minister exploited a Hindu goddess
Britain’s Brexit deadline abandoned
Both sides no longer recognise 15 October as the last day by which a deal can be struck
Voter fraud is real
Britain and America are unusually vulnerable, for the same progressive reasons
Can we ever be on the right side of history?
History is the composite of our collective actions, looming over us ready to make a verdict
Did Boris deliver?
The Prime Minister would prefer to overpromise than exceed expectations
How much longer can Greece and Turkey avoid war?
Greece and Turkey nearly came to blows last summer, and the risk of war remains
The love that dare not speak its name
Classical music has been tarnished with the dread word “elitism”
All smoke and no fire
An Impact Assessment on prohibiting cigarettes is unconvincing
Murders for May
Killings in the new Japan, family feuds in India and the novel menace of AI
Britain has an industrial strategy, but it’s bad
British politicians have made a fatal commitment to human quantitative easing
The poverty of miners’ strike nostalgia
We should not romanticise a futile and sometimes thuggish struggle
Common prayer
Britain, and her monarchy, have a language fitted for times of joy and sorrow alike — so why does the Church of England make such poor use of our traditional liturgy?
Violent delights
It’s 30 years since Pulp Fiction hit cinemas, and what a time it was to be young
Devolution has been a disaster
SNP incompetence is a feature of the system and not a bug
The sacred and the profane
Allowing a “Rave in the Nave” in Canterbury Cathedral was a regrettable error of judgement
Would you trust PC Brother?
The use of unreliable facial recognition technology is growing without sufficient scrutiny or accountability
Ukraine can still triumph
It needs, and deserves, Western patience and solidarity
