Osama bin Laden

The least familiar stretches of Nile prove the most interesting

24 July 2021 9:00 am

It’s one of the most tantalising travel images in the world — a felucca floating along the Nile at sunset,…

noor bin ladin four more years

Why America will have four more years of President Trump

5 January 2021 11:14 pm

President Trump won the 2020 election. In making such a statement, I know that people will say that I am…

Barack Obama was decidedly a man of action as well as words

28 November 2020 9:00 am

Barack Obama was famous for his rhetoric, but his achievements show just what a steely political operator he was too, says Sam Leith

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The wars go on

11 November 2020 7:39 am

America’s longest war has just entered its 20th year. The US invaded Afghanistan in October 2001 to overthrow the Taliban…

noor bin ladin four more years

A warning letter from the niece of Osama bin Laden

21 September 2020 4:44 am

Dear America, Two-hundred-and-forty-four years ago, the resolve, courage, and wisdom of your Founding Fathers forever changed the course of history.…

Rebooting the sordid glamour of 1970s New York: Nick Valensi, The Strokes’s guitarist

A countercultural upheaval

19 August 2017 9:00 am

‘New York stories in a way are always real estate stories,’ says the journalist Alan Light in Lizzy Goodman’s bustling…

Portrait of the week

5 March 2016 9:00 am

Home An official analysis by the Cabinet Office said that if Britain left the EU it would lead to a…

Hillary, Obama, Osama — and a hapless Bill

22 February 2014 9:00 am

The actor David Niven was once badgered by the American columnist William F. Buckley to introduce him to Marc Chagall,…

Charles Moore: Teaching qualifications must include a stint in business — or the army

9 November 2013 9:00 am

The most extraordinary thing about the scandal of Unite at Grangemouth and in Falkirk is how long it took the…