Man up, President Xi
Why not flip the script, and let China lead the world out of the climate crisis?
Remembering Colin Powell
Powell’s real legacy was Barack Obama
Inside Ethiopia’s civil wars
Abiy Ahmed has joined the long list of Africa’s “democrats” who became dictators
He brainwashed you
The legacy of communist cult leader Abimael Guzman lives on in Peru
Inside the memory of 9/11
Twenty years later, it’s hard to remember how the world reacted with a unity unthinkable today
Cold War rematch
The winners of the Cold War turned out to be the authoritarians, not the democrats
Inside the small town newspaper
How my first editor taught me to report “without fear or favour”
Another Boris and me
Boris Yeltsin’s path to the end of the Soviet Union, and the dawn of a new Russia that led, unerringly, to the despotic power we see today
Spain and me
David Smith on why the years following Franco’s death will always hold a place in his heart
Afiya and me: searching for East Africa’s lost tribe
David Smith recalls his time as a journalist covering the devastating famine in Karamoja, northern Uganda, in the 1980s