Julian SayarerElection StateThe country is tired and fatigue always benefits incumbents, because change requires energy and necessitates a more obvious degree of risk…Nov 17, 2019Nov 17, 2019
Julian SayarerCity Plaza, Athens — Best hotel in EuropeIt is an abandoned hotel, squatted in central Athens and transformed into accommodation for the city’s refugee community. Amongst the…Dec 14, 2017Dec 14, 2017
Julian SayarerThe 2017 Election : You Are Here.Sometimes it is only after something passes that you realise you were under it, or rather, that you realise the effect it was having on…Jun 13, 20171Jun 13, 20171
Julian SayarerVoting Labour, and why the Conservative Party must fix themselves.Watching UK politics from the distance of Istanbul is insightful in a few ways. First off and, less immersed in the day to day minutiae of…May 26, 2017May 26, 2017
Julian SayarerUS roadside politics: guns, meat, enginesHitchhiking is a good means of finding a way to the cross-section of a nation. You spend limited time with your rides, who tend to open up…Nov 14, 2016Nov 14, 2016
Julian SayarerA Turkish CoupFor anyone closely connected to Turkish politics, the British drama that has — to some extent rightfully — been attached to the EU…Jul 15, 2016Jul 15, 2016
Julian SayarerEU Referendum : Wrong answers on questions nobody was askingLike everyone I know, I’m tired of the EU referendum, so totally tired that I die inside a little bit just to start typing about it of my…Jun 16, 2016Jun 16, 2016
Julian SayarerTurkish UnravellingIt was in the year that Assad, opposed by Turkey since the start of the Syrian Civil War, began receiving aerial support from Russian…Jun 2, 2016Jun 2, 2016
Julian Sayarer“Nice but dim, and without any stomach at all.”Why Zac Goldsmith is unlikely to make London Mayor.Apr 1, 2016Apr 1, 2016