The Greens: the new nasty party
There is little doubting the impact Zack Polanski has had on the Green Party of England and Wales. The Greens were already picking up electoral support before he became leader…
There is little doubting the impact Zack Polanski has had on the Green Party of England and Wales. The Greens were already picking up electoral support before he became leader…
When Marxists and Islamists marched together through Tehran in 1978, or march together on elite university campuses today, many find it mystifying. Here are committed materialists and committed theists, ideological…
The Islamic Republic of Iran was always far more than a nation state. It was, as one insightful critic puts it, ‘the most ambitious political-theological experiment of the 20th century’.…
Something peculiar is afoot in Great Britain. Last year, hundreds gathered on Bournemouth beach to witness a mass baptism. Crowds of young men marched under ‘Christ is King’ banners through…
They say parties get the leaders they deserve. Enter stage left: Zack Polanski. The man the crank left has been waiting for. The Green Party frontman whose unstoppable rise this…
‘Tell me what you accuse the Jews of [and] I’ll tell you what you are guilty of.’ Those words, by the great Soviet Jewish writer Vasily Grossman, have rung in…
Whether Michel Houellebecq is a great writer will be debated for as long as his books are read. What few will deny is his status as one of the early…
On a stone plinth in Tavistock Square, in Bloomsbury, central London, sits a sculpture of an aged Mahatma Gandhi. He’s rendered cross-legged, with a shawl over his shoulder and his…