When one faith is attacked, the instinctive human reaction is often tribal: to identify the attacker with a broader religious group and to retaliate symbolically, rhetorically or politically.

British politics treats migration with a strange asymmetry. Small boats crossing the Channel spark headlines, press conferences, and promises of crackdowns. Yet the departure of high-value individuals — entrepreneurs, doctors, investors, technologists,...

Does immigration strengthen a nation’s economy more than it strains its social fabric?

She is not who you might think she is.No, that is the President of the Republic of India. The first citizen of the country, and the supreme commander of the Indian Armed Forces.

Should British-born children of immigrants have different rights or obligations toward Britain than citizens whose families have lived here for generations — particularly in their freedom to criticise the country?

Call it the Trump Peace Doctrine: a simple prescription — tell your enemies and terrorists and their proxies to surrender or face the democracies. 

India’s diplomatic behaviour has changed dramatically. On 10‑11 September 2025 at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva, Switzerland and Pakistan learned the hard way that the old Nehruvian habit of silently absorbing lecturing...

“You can have peace the next second”, said Ronald Reagan. “You just have to surrender. We will not surrender”, he continued. The current US President is no Reagan.

Fifteen years ago, on the 13th of July, I lost my grandmother. Her passing was not just the end of a chapter in our family, but the quiet closing of a book filled with the kind of practical wisdom that no think tank, behavioural economist or...

India, wary of international condemnation and hesitant about escalating tensions, made a pivotal tactical miscalculation: they refrained from initially neutralizing Pakistan's military air defenses. As Indian fighter jet missiles crossed into...