The fall of the Islamic Republic is nigh
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’.…
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…