Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Borderland: Europe’s Eastern faultline
Rising tensions over gas fields in the Eastern Mediterranean are fuelled by Erdogan’s dream of expanding Turkey’s borders
NATO’s at war with itself
Russia looks set to enjoy the fragility of its great adversary, the Atlantic Alliance
Erdogan’s Hagia Sophia move
Turkey has gone from darling of the EU, to Germany’s worst nightmare
The Fate of Hagia Sophia
Will Hagia Sophia’s Christian heritage survive under President Erdoğan’s ‘neo-Ottoman’ vision?
Turkey’s migrant war with Greece
Greece puts up a wall as Turkey besieges Europe with refugees
Between war and empire
Jeremy Black weighs in on two recent historiographical offerings
Silence of the fans
Nick Cohen says silent sport needs crowds to give it meaning
Tolerance? Intolerable!
National debate used to be encouraged by the Anglican state — but those days are fast disappearing
Tigran Mansurian: Con anima (ECM New Series)
You may find that Con anima is one of the best ways of spending the next 15 minutes of your life
My amendment achieved its aim
greater scrutiny will act as a discipline on ministers and their advisers
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
Farewell to Utopia
An erudite call to return to a more sceptical and prudential kind of politics
In-line, online, and where to draw the line
Notes on Colombo’s books and bookmen in the time of Covid-19
Piers and the gospel of gammon
The last thing I need is some repugnant gammon scumbag like Morgan polluting the world with his moronic boomer ideas
The paradox of Nazi culture
The Nazis were so obsessed with the otherness of the Jews that they created an alternative cultural universe for them