Russian roulette: is Moscow’s bluff backfiring?
Is Moscow’s bluff backfiring?
Putin’s big bluff
My first visit to Ukraine was in 1994. We drove to a village about three hours south of Kiev. The…
Why we still need the BBC
The BBC must ask itself if Nadine Dorries has a point
Daughters for sale: Afghans are growing desperate
Afghans are growing desperate
Colin Powell: A great man – and a failure
My memory of Colin Powell feels personal, even though we were 6000 miles apart at the time. I was in…
I’ve just watched Lebanon commit suicide – and it’s heartbreaking
What has happened to Lebanon is a tragedy
America abandoned this fight before the Afghans did
The West’s war in Afghanistan was always doomed
The crisis in Lebanon is a warning for the West
Lebanon is trapped in a nightmare of its own making
Triumph of the Taleban: the unfolding disaster in Afghanistan
Their patience is paying off
Is the worst yet to come in the Middle East?
If Iran steps in, the worst is still to come
Migrant smuggling is one of Lebanon’s last businesses
Ibrahim Lachine sold his mother’s furniture to pay for a place on a smuggler’s boat from Lebanon to Cyprus and…
Isis’s weakness is now its strength
As coronavirus swept the globe a year ago, Isis began issuing pronouncements. ‘God, by his will, sent a punishment to…
Stop the real steal
If you want to get rich, start a religion. The line actually comes from Orwell, but is ofter (and entirely…
Biden’s speech impediment
Does Joe Biden write his own speeches? Surely not. Yet his campaign says Biden was his own speechwriter for the address he made…
Iran vs the rest: the Middle East has reached a tipping point
The next six weeks will be crucial for the Middle East
The inevitability of Trump 2024
Donald Trump’s increasingly outrageous attempts to contest the results of the US presidential election were given their absurd symbol early…
Trump 2024! He definitely lost – but he’s not finished yet
Donald Trump’s increasingly outrageous attempts to contest the results of the US presidential election were given their absurd symbol early…
Donald Trump is preparing to strike his greatest deal yet
A New Yorker cartoon shows Donald Trump in an orange jumpsuit. Until last night, his enemies could enjoyably salivate over…
Michael Cohen: ‘I lied for Trump, but that doesn’t make me a liar’
Michael Cohen on the cult of The Donald
Will Trump refuse to leave?
At a drinks party in Washington DC just after Donald Trump was elected, someone from the old regime told me: ‘This…
The hostages’ president
President Trump has tweeted that, among other things he’s best at, he is ‘the greatest hostage negotiator in the history…
Pardon Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden says he didn’t mean to end up in Russia when he fled the United States to leak secrets…
The mood in Lebanon is for revolution
The mood in Lebanon is for revolution
The war for your mind
The romantic plans of a Kazakh bodybuilder named Yuri Tolochko have become one more casualty of the coronavirus pandemic. He…
Was the ‘pee tape’ a lie all along?
Sir Anthony Eden’s wife, Clarissa, famously said that at times she’d felt as if the Suez Canal was flowing through…
