Dispatches
The Fifth Republic’s Darkest Days?
The Parisian political elite has lost touch with reality and the public
Islam and Innocence: Canada’s Predicament
Despite the attack on the Ottawa parliament, Canada has still not woken up to the global scale of the Islamist threat
The Kurds: Israel’s not so Improbable Allies
The secret relationship of Israel and the Kurds
The Isles are Full of Big Noises
The Orkney islanders have their doubts about Scottish independence
Strangers in their own Holy Land
The embattled Christian communities in Bethlehem and Nazareth
Two Generations Lost to Communism
50 years of Communism have left Cuba poorer than ever
This Expat Paradise is a Woman’s Nightmare
Dubai may be a popular holiday destination but it is also a human rights quagmire for women
Bad Times for Good Samaritans
The Samaritans who are looking for new brides
The Turbulent Minister is Right
British churchmen look to America’s example on welfare
The Russians Are Coming
‘Like everyone else in Kiev my friend has been having nightmares’
Majority rule; minority rights
It is folly to treat UK race relations as totally divorced from the rest of human experience. We need to look at the larger global picture
American revolutions: Rewriting the language of the unheard
‘Dissenting viewpoints — for example, the belief that America is not an intrinsically racist country—are shunned as further proof of racist pathologies’
The favourites
From Piers Gaveston onwards, controversial courtiers have a long history in British politics.How unusual is Dominic Cummings?