Section: Weekend Essay

Total Results: 118


A child on the Greek-Macedonian border (DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP via Getty Images)
31 Jul 2021 - 1:30am

The walls are going up across Europe The EU is preparing for a militarised war on immigration

Aris Roussinos

Saturday, 17 July

17.07

Why do dictators rise and fall? What Ibn Khaldun reveals about Syria

Aris Roussinos

Monday, 5 July

05.07

Batley won’t save Labour The by-election result wasn't a victory, it was a humiliation

Paul Embery

Saturday, 26 June

26.06

America’s Muslim #MeToo moment The self-appointed guardian of Islamic civil rights faces allegations of abuse and omerta

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Saturday, 5 June

05.06

Why we should welcome the lab leak hypothesis Plagued by fear, scientists have failed to protect us

Bret Weinstein

Saturday, 22 May

22.05

Why are women becoming witches? Humans have always turned to magic when they feel helpless

Suzannah Lipscomb

Saturday, 24 April

24.04

How France lost her dignity A civilisation that legalises euthanasia loses all respect

Michel Houellebecq

Saturday, 20 March

20.03

The populist spirit of the Paris Commune One hundred and fifty years ago, revolutionaries were far more interested in democracy than feminism and Marx

Robert Tombs

Saturday, 20 February

20.02

Why Starmer is no Attlee His agenda hardly heralds an era-defining transformation of state and public realm

James Kirkup

Saturday, 13 February

13.02

Mario Draghi is no saviour Why would the bodily incarnation of neoliberalism represent a solution to Italy's woes?

Thomas Fazi