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Syria just proves the West is damned whatever it does
It is salutary to remember that were it not for Ed Miliband, Bashar al-Assad might have been deposed 11 years…
France has had enough of Germany’s bullying
There was one person missing in Paris on Saturday evening as France celebrated the resurrection of Notre Dame cathedral. The…
Mandarins shell out £130k for Starmer army’s offices
With a change of government, you might have thought 4 July would see a lot of new brooms in Whitehall.…
How chaos could return to Syria once again
‘The only certainty in war is human suffering, uncertain costs, unintended consequences.’ So said Barack Obama in a speech in…
Revealed: the 53 peers silent for five years
The wind of change is sweeping through the Upper House. What with Labour’s plans to expel the last hereditaries and…
America is not prepared for Syria after Assad
On Saturday afternoon, US intelligence officials leaked an assessment: the Assad regime, which has ruled Syria for over half a…
The absurdities of a ‘meritocracy fund’
‘Go woke, go broke,’ runs the catchphrase. Now, at last, we are presented with the welcome opportunity to put this…
Why men join the manosphere
The obsession with ‘toxic masculinity’ shows no sign of abating. As reported this weekend, Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, has…
How will HTS rule Syria?
Yesterday we woke to the astonishing news that the rebels from the Syrian opposition had taken Damascus and President Assad…
Suella Braverman’s husband joins Reform
Well, well, well. In a rather curious turn of events, it now transpires that Rael Braverman – husband of former…
Assad’s demise, Isis’s rise?
The Iranian-dominated Shia arc has collapsed. The keystone to the arc was Bashar al-Assad’s regime and the partnership that his father Hafiz al-Assad forged with the Iranian regime in…
Sunday shows: Rayner ‘welcomes’ fall of Assad
Deputy PM ‘welcomes the news’ that the Assad regime has fallen Rebel forces in Syria have captured Damascus, and Bashar…
Putin’s Middle Eastern house of cards
The Kremlin’s involvement in Syria’s civil war was always, first and foremost, about posing as a great multi-regional power rather…
This is Iran’s annus horribilis
Iran’s Axis of Resistance is falling apart. Israel has significantly degraded Hezbollah’s capabilities and decapitated its leadership. Hamas has been…
Syria is up for grabs
After 13 years of war that began with street protests during the heady days of the Arab Spring and morphed…
How Assad fell
The astonishing and abrupt fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Damascus is a moment of historic importance for the Middle…
Syria is emerging from a nightmare
Gradually, and then suddenly, the regime of Bashar al-Assad has collapsed. This century’s most evil tyrant has fled Syria, and…
The BBC has a ‘talent’ problem
So here we are again – another well-known BBC presenter is facing a growing list of allegations of misconduct, tarnishing…
The Russian nuclear threat is looming once more
It is 00.40 pm, 26 September 1983. Lieutenant-Colonel Stanislav Petrov, the duty commander in charge of monitoring the Soviet Union’s early…
In Donbas, Ukrainians hope Trump can end the war
Not a single home remains intact in the village of Bohorodychne in Donbas, since it was torn apart by artillery…
Will Kemi’s ‘Operation Slow Burn’ help her see off Farage?
It was quite possible that Kemi Badenoch could have proved an instant hit with the British public and taken the…
How working-class Dublin turned on Conor McGregor
When Conor McGregor stood in the dock for his civil rape trial last week, the controversial MMA fighter was receiving…
Olaf Scholz’s dreams of election victory are wishful thinking
Three years ago today, Olaf Scholz was sworn in as Germany’s chancellor. He had narrowly won the election by presenting…
South Korea is still haunted by the Gwangju Uprising
The news that President Yoon had instated martial law on Tuesday hit me hard. The last time martial law was…
Will Syria’s new rulers show mercy?
The late Henry Kissinger said of the Iraq-Iran war in the 1980s that it was a shame that both sides…