John Lloyd - Quillette

A Muslim woman in London wearing a niqab, using a mobile phone while shopping on Oxford Street.

The Muslim Choice: Integration or Confrontation

Liberalising trends within Islam are facing resistance from radicals committed to a narrative of victimhood and grievance.

John Lloyd

3 Sep 2024 · 33 min read

Totems and Taboos

A cancelled academic has produced a fine new book about the threat posed by progressive pieties.

John Lloyd

6 Aug 2024 · 9 min read

Marine Le Pen with a concerned look on her face surrounded by a crowd of press in Paris.

A Question of Legitimacy

The Rassemblement National was thwarted by a coalition of convenience, but it remains the party with the largest grip on French voters.

John Lloyd

12 Jul 2024 · 10 min read

Sir Keir Starmer arrives at Downing Street. He's smiling, in a red tie, blue suit.

Now Comes the Hard Part

The UK’s new Labour government enjoys a huge mandate, but it must contend with imposing challenges at home and abroad.

John Lloyd

9 Jul 2024 · 14 min read

A photo of Glenn Loury reading a book in the 1980s. He is a black man with glasses, suit and tie

Sin and Social Science

Glenn Loury’s startlingly frank confessional memoir offers a complex portrait of a brilliant scholar and a profoundly flawed man.

John Lloyd

24 Jun 2024 · 14 min read

Health Secretary Humza Yousaf listens as First Minister Nicola Sturgeon presents her government's Programme for Government

Very Bad Government

From the beginning, the SNP leadership has skilfully papered over its failures and absurdities with soaring rhetoric of the better life to come once Scotland is “free.”

John Lloyd

3 May 2024 · 11 min read

People gathered at the grave of Romania's late communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.

Nostalgia for Confinement

Why are some in Russia and Eastern Europe pining for the communist system that once oppressed them?

John Lloyd

18 Apr 2024 · 8 min read

Keir Starmer and the red rose symbol of the UK Labour Party.

What Is the Labour Party For?

Sir Keir Starmer looks likely to become Britain’s next prime minister at a time when the democratic centre-left everywhere is facing a crisis of definition.

John Lloyd

26 Mar 2024 · 8 min read

Alexei Navalny 1976–2024

The life and death of a complex and courageous dissident.

John Lloyd

23 Feb 2024 · 14 min read

Lights Out in America

The cowardice at America’s most important liberal publications is damaging democracy.

John Lloyd

5 Jan 2024 · 12 min read

The New Normal?

Election results in the Netherlands and Argentina provide evidence of the vigour and variety of the New Right and its global reach.

John Lloyd

27 Nov 2023 · 6 min read

The Return of Terror’s Architect

The restoration of a statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky in Moscow illuminates the gulf that now divides Russian society.

John Lloyd

15 Nov 2023 · 9 min read

Mind the Gap

If he is to reunite Poland, Donald Tusk will have to balance his strong support for the EU with citizens’ legitimate concerns about the erosion of national sovereignty.

John Lloyd

21 Oct 2023 · 8 min read

Debating the New Elite

A Prospect magazine debate at Conway Hall pitched the Anywheres, represented by former Times columnist David Aaronovitch, against the Somewheres, represented by postliberal academic Matthew Goodwin.

John Lloyd

20 Oct 2023 · 6 min read

The Immigration Conundrum

Migration from the developing world to the West will continue until and unless international development can improve the societies people are leaving.

John Lloyd

19 Sep 2023 · 9 min read