Second in Sarah Stook’s series on Iran. In 1979, three things occurred in Central Asian and The Middle East that changed the region, opening it up to fundamentalism, authoritarianism and fervent anti-Western thought. One...
It’s been a great year for the right, so here are the 100 top right-wingers in the UK of 2019. Whilst not all are big C Conservatives, many are. Politicians make up the bulk...
Star Rating: 5 Isabel Hardman manages something extraordinary in her 352 page book. She manages to make us feel sorry for our politicians. That’s no easy task, considering how we see politicians. Most of...
We always have an image in our mind about First Ladies. Sometimes we think of the glamour of Jackie Kennedy, the tragedy of Mary Lincoln, the youth of Frances Cleveland or the openness of...
It’s the world’s oldest profession. Our views of prostitution had been shaped by media over time. Prostitutes in fictional media land into several characters, depending on the work and their circumstances: The Willing Prostitute:...
With 25 candidates in the running to be Democratic nominee in the 2020 US presidential election, it’s like a lacklustre version of Big Brother. Jokes about the number of Conservatives running in the leadership...
Thirty years ago, an Indian-born British author wrote a book. This novel, a story of magical realism akin to the author’s usual work, combined fantasy and religious history in two worlds. The book? A...
Feminism. Misogyny. Misandry. Equality. Inequality. Sexist. Bigot. Buzzwords across social media, words construed as insults or as badges of honour. Words that are used to combat opinions that they don’t like, creating an argument...
There may be a chance for a Byzantine mosaic of the Crucifixion made by a Jewish artist who fled the Nazis to be saved, after all. The Christian Heritage Centre has received permission by...
‘Greed is good’ saved my life. Class war, anyone? I had plans to start writing regularly on how to spot a neo-marxist and pull the dissonance on the left apart but sometimes events overtake...
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