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Trump says no thanks to Britain’s aircraft carriers
The war with Iran entered its second week on Saturday with intense fighting across multiple fronts, as Israeli forces struck…
Never has North Korea felt more smug about its nuclear weapons
If there’s one thing that the ongoing Iran-US conflict is teaching North Korea, it is that nuclear weapons are an…
Don’t sacrifice the Kurds
The Kurdish region along the Iran-Iraq border is an imposing landscape of sublime beauty this time of year. The snow-capped…
Why Reza Pahlavi cannot lead Iran
There are many reasons why Reza Pahlavi should not be a future leader of Iran. He left as a teenager…
Reflections on the first week of Operation Epic Fury
Operations Epic Fury and Roaring Lion, the joint US-Israeli campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran, have begun to reduce…
Brutalism is beautiful
Is a concrete Brutalist complex as worthy of commemoration and preservation as a medieval cathedral or neoclassical stately home? The…
Kiran Desai: ‘All cultures are rooted in magic’
It wasn’t until a painting arrived in her post, a gift from the Italian artist Francesco Clemente, that Kiran Desai’s…
Badenoch can show Polanski what a real green party looks like
Freed from the burden of choosing a prospective government, by-elections are an opportunity for voters to tell the political class…
The Akrotiri attack has weakened Britain’s position in Cyprus
When RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus was targeted in an attempted drone attack on Monday, it didn’t just leave the British government…
We shouldn’t celebrate Ian Huntley’s death
Ian Huntley’s graveside will be a lonely one. Few will mourn a man who lurked in the darkest shadows of…
Is this Iran’s first climbdown?
Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, has announced that the country’s temporary leadership council has approved the suspension of attacks against neighbouring…
Ireland’s schizophrenic approach to Iran
On St Patrick’s day later this month, Taoiseach Micheal Martin will meet Donald Trump in the Oval Office. It could…
Is the US preparing for a long war against Iran?
Situation report The war in the Middle East shows no sign of slowing. Instead, there were heavy air strikes inside…
Could the Kurds rise up against Iran?
The hopes of the United States and Israel to bring about quick regime change in Tehran – whether through millions of…
Why the Ayatollahs might be harder to remove than Trump thinks
According to the old Farsi proverb, if you want a peacock, you must suffer the hardships of travelling to India.…
How the culture war came for the Italian opera house
The Italian communist philosopher Antonio Gramsci taught that for the revolution to succeed it should conquer the means of thought…
Spanish border guards won’t make Gibraltar less British
Almost a decade after Brexit, Gibraltar is entering a new era. As stipulated in a thousand-page treaty published on 26…
MrBeast needs an education in schooling
You may never have heard of Jimmy Donaldson, but if you have unsupervised children they almost certainly have. He’s a…
Trump isn’t the greatest threat to the special relationship
Britain’s refusal to fully back the United States over strikes on Iran has triggered an unusually public transatlantic row. It…
Will the Iran war propel Gavin Newsom to the presidency?
“I’m very angry about this war,” said Gavin Newsom, the California Governor, on stage yesterday. Newsom has a memoir, Young Man…
The good and bad news about Labour’s leaked social cohesion strategy
Some things in the government’s leaked social cohesion strategy will be deeply neuralgic to many. There is the creation of…
Revealed: Britain to get Islamophobia tsar
Britain is to get a new ‘anti-Muslim hostility tsar’ under plans to be outlined by the government on Monday, which…
Wokery is a Christian heresy
‘Progressive’ or ‘woke’ politics is undoubtedly religious. But not in a good way. In championing transgender, ethnic minority or postcolonial…
The BBC cannot tax Netflix viewers
The BBC has described itself as being set to enter ‘managed decline’. The government is currently reviewing the broadcaster’s charter,…
The decline and fall of Tottenham Hotspur
How the mighty have fallen. Tottenham Hotspur, the fifth richest club in England, the ninth richest in the world, current Europa League…
