On the playing fields of Eton (Neil Berry, Arab News)

The outgoing mayor of London, Boris Johnson, is incensed that US President Barack Obama has advised British people to vote to “remain” in the referendum on UK membership of the European Union on June 23.

http://www.arabnews.com/columns/news/915976

Muslims, money and UK elections (Neil Berry, Arab News)

The hardening of European attitudes toward Muslims in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo massacre and the attacks in Paris and Brussels is assuming a far grimmer aspect than it is comfortable for liberal opinion to acknowledge.

http://www.arabnews.com/columns/news/909541

An honorable past, imponderable future (Neil Berry, Arab News)

On March 26 the Independent newspaper appeared on newsstands for the last time. The title survives in online form but its demise as a hard copy publication signals the end of a noble venture in British journalism.

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The catastrophe of unipolarity (Neil Berry, Arab News)

At a time of great geopolitical turmoil, it is tempting to feel nostalgia for the Cold War — the long period following World War II when the United States and the Soviet Union held guns to one another’s heads. That neither side dared deploy their nuclear arsenal made for a kind of stability, a queasy stability, to be sure, founded on the fear of “mutually assured destruction.”

http://www.arabnews.com/columns/news/883761