Sholto Byrnes

The Muslim Brotherhood: should we engage?

• 19 December 2010
• 26 comments

Rethinking Islamism V.

Asia

British woman faces death sentence

• 17 December 2010
• 11 comments

Should it be one law for “us” and another for “them”?

UK Politics

Let the American anti-Quran pastor visit Britain

• 12 December 2010
• 36 comments

Theresa May is being urged to ban him. Free speech demands she shouldn’t.

Religion

Atheists not allowed

• 10 December 2010
• 33 comments

What do you do in a country where you have to belong to a religion?

Books

The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian Dynasty: the Husaynis 1700-1948

• 09 December 2010
• 5 comments

Politics

Approving of autocracy

• 05 December 2010
• 34 comments

If you write favourably about Qatar or Russia, are you speaking up for dictatorships – or acknowledging there may be different kinds of social contracts?

Africa

Colonel Gaddafi warns Europe over “turning black”

• 01 December 2010
• 6 comments

But there’s method in his madness.

David Cameron, happiness and delusion

• 28 November 2010
• 46 comments

Can you be happy without a home?

Religion

Goodbye and good riddance to the Dalai Lama

• 23 November 2010
• 47 comments

Here’s hoping, anyway...

Politics

Why politicians can't tell the truth

• 21 November 2010
• 8 comments

As Lord Young’s case shows – we don’t want them to.