Mohammed bin Salman
Why are these dead-eyed K-pop groups represented as some kind of ideal?
On Saturday, Made in Korea: The K-pop Experience began by hailing K-pop as ‘the multi-billion-pound music that’s taken the world…
Is Biden ready to let MBS get away with murder?
Is Biden ready to let MBS get away with murder?
Can Boris get the Saudis to pump more oil?
The oil price is up by more than 40 per cent since the start of the year. It is being…
Why would the Saudis bail out Biden?
Is Saudi Arabia shunning Washington? Mohammed bin Salman has reportedly been refusing to phone Joe Biden, who wants the kingdom to…
Saudi Arabia’s burgeoning art scene
Stuart Jeffries on Saudi Arabia’s burgeoning art scene
Prodigal son-in-law
A friend in Washington saw Jared and Ivanka at a couple of smart DC dinner parties in the first year…
Bailing out businesses looks inevitable – but it’s not all bad
Should the government be prepared to take equity stakes in major companies that will struggle to survive the current crisis?…
Oil on troubled waters: the US-Saudi alliance is crumbling
Donald Trump said in October 2018 that the Saudi royal family ‘wouldn’t last two weeks’ without American military support. Last…
Crude tactics: Russia and Saudi Arabia are at war over oil prices
It all started at what everyone thought would be a routine meeting between Opec and non-Opec nations in Vienna. There…
Andy Khawaja: ‘The whistleblower’
This article is in The Spectator’s March 2020 US edition. Subscribe here. It’s after 2 a.m. in Club 38, a nightspot in…
Ten years on, the Arab Spring has only benefited the Islamists
Ten years on, the Arab Spring’s legacy is hopelessness and helplessness
Why I have fallen out of love with Donald Trump
Here we are, 41 years down the road, and I’m once again writing for The Spectator’s Christmas issue. This is…
Death of a dissident: Saudi Arabia and the rise of the mobster state
As someone who spent three decades working closely with intelligence services in the Arab world and the West, the Saudi…
