War
The final humiliation
What happens if the Taliban gets it right?
Staying out is the hard part
There are no dominoes to fall in Afghanistan
Three days that shamed the world
Janine di Giovanni on the profoundly moving Oscar-nominated film that is teaching young Bosnian Serbs about the awful truth of the Srebrenica massacre
Lessons of Bosnian war and peace
I’m still haunted by a murderous conflict the Western world ignored until it was too late
Fabricator and fraudster
Fabricator and fraud
Power plays
The Western powers should beware making belligerent threats they cannot back up
Artists shaped by war
Practically all the artists in the book are traumatised in one way or another, and all experienced war
Mission Accomplished
Finley Harnett reviews the BBC’s Once Upon a Time in Iraq
Do mention the war
The Deer Hunter remains the most affecting of Vietnam movies, Christopher Silvester writes
Shakespeare in the West Bank
Adam LeBor has found one of the most immersive, and exhausting, experiences television has to offer
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?
Labour has a conspiracy problem
Dawn Butler MP should reevaluate her eccentric ideas
Labour’s insecurity counsel
A strategy of concession and apology will not build Britain’s soft power
Art of the deal
A simple sale, with money changing hands, was out of the question
Marble run
Let’s give up the Elgin Marbles, but not to Athens
Israel and the danger of perpetual war
Friends of Israel should be alarmed about the prospect of fighting on numerous fronts
Labour’s timebomb
This one-term Labour government will bequeath a wretched economic mess
Reaping a bitter harvest
Labour are struggling to justify their own policies
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
Going off script
The only thing worse than Kemi Badenoch’s scripted questions are her unscripted questions
