Israel
Septuagenarians behaving badly: Stockholm, by Noa Yedlin, reviewed
Four elderly people conspire, for different reasons, to keep the death of their friend a secret until he’s safely awarded the expected Nobel Prize for Economics
Benjamin Netanyahu is increasingly seen as Israel’s curse
Jerusalem On Tuesday, I was driving down to an Israeli army headquarters on the border with Gaza as…
The world is a mess. Why not find escapism through wine?
In most children’s stories, the good characters live happily ever after. Works suitable for older readers tend to greater realism.…
What did Hamas think was going to happen?
Much misfortune the woebegone couldn’t have seen coming: a raging fire in the house next door that spreads to yours.…
Letters: policing pro-Palestinian rallies isn’t an exact science
Call for common justice Sir: Rod Liddle’s piece on the true desires of Palestinians was rare in its acceptance of…
What Hamas promised to its electorate
Things you do not hear very often, number one: a pro-Palestinian protestor denouncing Hamas for the barbarity of its incursion…
Why I don’t trust the BBC’s Trusted News Initiative
You almost certainly haven’t heard of the Trusted News Initiative (TNI), although you probably should have. It’s a BBC-led consortium…
No one should trust the camera in the age of AI
Bryan Appleyard on photographic manipulation, past and present
Europe needs to step up on Ukraine
Vasyl, a burly, tattooed infantry commander who lost a leg to a Russian mine on the eastern front, sits swinging…
Ukraine’s fight has been eclipsed by the ‘Other War’
The first indication that this was a literary festival like no other came with the request to provide ‘proof of…
Keep your politics à la carte
It’s a truism that the Anglosphere has developed a ‘tribalism’ that rivals the divisions between the Kikuyu and Luhya in…
Joe Biden’s Middle East diplomacy is a wreck
Joe Biden prides himself on his decades of foreign-policy experience, his ability to talk tough yet be kind, and his…
An Israeli ground assault would be devastating for Gaza
On a patch of scrubland outside the Zikim kibbutz earlier this week, I came across a platoon of Merkava 4…
