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2 months ago | 
thespectator.com | Jonathan Spyer |Paul Wood |Michael Nazir-Ali |Michael Evans
“ISIS is taking huge advantage of the current situation in Syria,” Ilham Ahmed told me, when we met in the north Syrian city of Hasakeh in mid-January. “In the recent time, there have been many attacks on checkpoints of the SDF (Syrian Democratic Forces). They are most active in the al Badiya area.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
thespectator.com | Michael Gove |Philip Womack |Melanie McDonagh |Michael Nazir-Ali
MICHAEL GOVE: In your book, We Who Wrestle With God, you work intimately with Bible stories to bring out their meaning, their relevance and their importance. Why should anyone read the Bible? JORDAN PETERSON: The simple answer is because you have to have your story straight or you go off course badly. One of the strange intellectual events in the past sixty years is that the presumptions of the Enlightenment have been demonstrated to be false.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
thespectator.com | Arieh Kovler |Philip Patrick |Anatol Lieven |Michael Nazir-Ali
President Joe Biden delivered his farewell address last night in the Oval Office. While he started with strong patriotic themes, he ended by warning the country of some “things that give me great concern.” Biden declared that America is an oligarchy now. Cockburn thought it was turning into a dictatorship? He can’t keep track. Overall, though, he thought Biden’s speech presented an idealistic view of America.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
thespectator.com | Michael Nazir-Ali |Richard Dawkins |Janine di Giovanni |Douglas Murray
When I visited Maaloula in southwest Syria in 2016, the Jabhat Al-Nusra (the predecessor of the Hayat Tahrir Ash Sham jihadis, who have toppled Bashar al-Assad) had systematically destroyed and desecrated the town’s churches and monasteries. Orthodox nuns were kidnapped and held to ransom, only freed after the Syrian government agreed to release extremist prisoners.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
spectator.com.au | Michael Nazir-Ali
When I visited Maaloula in southwest Syria in 2016, the Jabhat Al-Nusra (the predecessor of the Hayat Tahrir Ash Sham jihadis, who have toppled Bashar al-Assad) had systematically destroyed and desecrated the town’s churches and monasteries. Orthodox nuns were kidnapped and held to ransom, only freed after the Syrian government agreed to release extremist prisoners.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
spectator.co.uk | Michael Nazir-Ali
When I visited Maaloula in southwest Syria in 2016, the Jabhat Al-Nusra (the predecessor of the Hayat Tahrir Ash Sham jihadis, who have toppled Bashar al-Assad) had systematically destroyed and desecrated the town’s churches and monasteries. Orthodox nuns were kidnapped and held to ransom, only freed after the Syrian government agreed to release extremist prisoners.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
thecritic.co.uk | Michael Nazir-Ali
Britain should use its diplomatic influence to help Many political and social commentators have been recognising that religious belief and expression are increasingly important in our world today, not only in terms of our individual lives but with regards to the shaping of society and even the formation of state policy and law.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Michael Nazir-Ali
This week the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill was introduced in the House of Commons. Attempts to do this in the past have been widely opposed by those involved in palliative care, those with disabilities and people of different faiths. Parliament has also previously rejected such attempts and yet this many-headed hydra keeps returning to the public arena. Behind these campaigns, there is the false notion of autonomy: my life is my own and I can end it when and how I want to.
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Aug 11, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Michael Nazir-Ali
Not just for Remembrance Sunday: We must remember this island's collective achievements Credit: Jamie Lorriman When people, from different parts of the world, began arriving to settle in Britain, they should have encountered a nation that knew what it was and how it had come to be what they saw and heard. Instead, they came across well-meaning but naïve policies of multiculturalism which were as much about self doubt as about accommodating new arrivals. The unintended but foreseeable...
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Jun 23, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Michael Nazir-Ali
So much of the recent debate on immigration, legal and illegal, has been about numbers. Numbers are important, of course, when we look at the state of housing, education, healthcare and much else besides. There can be little doubt that while immigration assists in some areas, it puts pressure on other services. Every government has to take account of the effects of immigration on services and infrastructure, and have in place policies to control the numbers of those coming here.
