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Syria just proves the West is damned whatever it does

9 December 2024 11:05 pm

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

9 December 2024 11:02 pm

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

9 December 2024 10:55 pm

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

9 December 2024 10:29 pm

‘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

9 December 2024 9:47 pm

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

9 December 2024 9:21 pm

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’

9 December 2024 6:48 pm

‘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

9 December 2024 5:48 pm

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?

9 December 2024 5:39 pm

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

9 December 2024 5:30 pm

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?

9 December 2024 5:00 am

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

9 December 2024 2:11 am

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

9 December 2024 2:08 am

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

9 December 2024 2:02 am

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

9 December 2024 1:27 am

After 13 years of war that began with street protests during the heady days of the Arab Spring and morphed…

How Assad fell

8 December 2024 11:44 pm

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

8 December 2024 9:55 pm

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

8 December 2024 5:30 pm

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

8 December 2024 5:15 pm

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

8 December 2024 11:00 am

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?

8 December 2024 11:00 am

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

8 December 2024 11:00 am

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

8 December 2024 11:00 am

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

8 December 2024 11:00 am

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?

8 December 2024 9:21 am

The late Henry Kissinger said of the Iraq-Iran war in the 1980s that it was a shame that both sides…