Jawad Iqbal

Joe Biden is wrong to roll out the red carpet for Narendra Modi

22 June 2023 9:40 pm

On taking office, Joe Biden promised a new approach to foreign policy based on prioritising democratic values and human rights.…

India’s war on Charles Darwin is a step too far

8 June 2023 8:59 pm

What is it that India’s rulers find so objectionable about Charles Darwin and his evolutionary theory that they’ve banned his…

The Saudi blood money takeover of sport is complete

7 June 2023 4:45 pm

Some of football’s biggest names are revealing themselves to be shameless mercenaries on a scale that is staggering even by…

Javier Tebas and the racist shame of Spanish football

24 May 2023 9:34 pm

The vicious racist abuse of Vinícius Jr – the Real Madrid and Brazil star – points to something rotten at…

Muslim activists can’t cancel The Kerala Story

23 May 2023 9:56 pm

Britain’s cinemas are in danger of becoming the new front line of protests from angry religious mobs demanding the cancellation…

Will India ever get back the Koh-i-Noor diamond?

21 May 2023 5:00 pm

India has not yet got its hands on the Koh-i-Noor, despite the county’s many efforts to retrieve the diamond from…

The oppressor of Hong Kong should be banned from the coronation

28 April 2023 8:26 pm

The government is making a mistake in turning a blind eye to China’s plans to send a high ranking politician…

Why are so many Indian migrants crossing the Channel?

26 April 2023 3:57 pm

Indians now make up the second-biggest cohort of Channel migrants: 675 Indians arrived in small boats in the first three…

Angela Merkel doesn’t deserve to be honoured by Germany

18 April 2023 8:47 pm

It must rank as some form of political satire that Angela Merkel has been awarded Germany’s highest political honour. Not…

Shame on those who abandoned Peng Shuai

16 April 2023 3:31 am

No one really expects much in the way of principles or morality from those charged with running international sport. The…

York doesn’t need Unesco world heritage status

13 April 2023 10:22 pm

The Unesco world heritage status award is a curious kind of international beauty contest in which historic locations vie to…

Is Elon Musk really a ‘free speech absolutist’?

6 April 2023 10:13 pm

Elon Musk, the Twitter owner, is in his own words a ‘free speech absolutist’. He promised to combat censorship and allow…

Elon Musk is wrong to call for a pause on the AI race

31 March 2023 9:43 pm

On 2 August 1939, Albert Einstein – at that time the most famous scientist in the world – put his…

Humza Yousaf and the myth about Britain’s diversity problem

28 March 2023 9:17 pm

Humza Yousaf, the new First Minister of Scotland after his victory in the SNP leadership election, deserves his moment in…

Pakistan deserves better than Imran Khan

17 March 2023 10:00 pm

Democracy and the rule of law have always struggled to take hold in Pakistan, a country in which no elected…

It’s time to end the City of Culture charade

8 March 2023 10:10 pm

It is something of a mystery why being named UK City of Culture is seen in some quarters as a…

The trouble with ‘microaggressions’

3 March 2023 12:37 am

Welcome to the divisive and somewhat sinister world of racial ‘microaggressions’. Loosely defined as ‘a subtle slight or action that…