“... administration nor the far right has a monopoly on the abuse of the word ‘antisemitism’. As Mark Mazower writes in a forthcoming study, On Antisemitism: A Word in History, after 7 October ‘no one wanted to be called an antisemite, and yet if you believed the pundits, antisemites were everywhere, and it sounded like Manhattan was Berlin on the eve ...”

“... congresses now rival United Russia in acclamations of its leader, that is not necessarily a black mark in a tradition that respects authoritarianism as a sign of strength. The weaknesses in Erdogan’s public image lie elsewhere. Choleric and umbrageous, he is vulnerable to ridicule in the press, suing journalists by the dozen for unfavourable coverage of ...”