How Pakistan’s most powerful man provoked India’s missile attack
From a western perspective, memorising all 114 chapters of the Quran might seem an unusual qualification for a national leader.…
For most of the world, VE Day did not mean peace
While drinking, dancing and laughter were the order of the day in Britain on the VE Day, things were not…
Is nuclear war between India and Pakistan inevitable?
Yesterday evening Indian prime minister Narendra Modi authorised missile strikes on jihadi training camps located in Pakistan’s East Punjab and…
Was Nixon solely to blame for the fall of Saigon?
At 7.53 a.m. on Tuesday 30 April 1975, 50 years ago today, Sergeant Juan Valdez boarded a Sea Knight helicopter…
What is more worrying than war between India and Pakistan?
This week, jihadist gunmen killed 26 tourists. For some reason Islamist diehards, supported by their stooges in British universities, did…
Putin’s Russia is part of a global Orthodox revival
Boris Berezovsky, the Russian oligarch, was found hanged in his Sunningdale home in March 2013. Born to Ashkenazi Jewish parents,…
The truth about ninjas
One of my favourite scenes in Kill Bill, Quentin Tarantino’s black comedy martial arts film, is the meeting of Beatrix…
The weapon that could end America’s global supremacy
Two weeks ago, a bright light streaked through the night sky above Inner Mongolia. It was not an asteroid. The…
The crocodile casualties of the second world war
At the end of February, 1945 about 1,000 surviving Japanese soldiers based on Ramree Island off the coast of Arakan,…
Why Tulip Siddiq had to go
In 1996, I flew to Dhaka to meet Sheikh Hasina, the newly elected prime minister of Bangladesh, to discuss her economic strategy. It was not a pleasant…
We should support Donald Trump’s attempt to buy Greenland
Over Christmas, president-elect Donald Trump wrote on his Truth Social site that: ‘For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout…
How the Black Death helped bring prosperity to Europe
As the media alarms us about an approaching ‘quad-demic’ of diseases this winter (Covid-19, Flu, RSV, Norovirus) it is a…
South Korea has a long history of martial law
Yesterday afternoon South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol made the shock TV announcement that he was putting his country under…
Why the West must back Syria’s Bashar al-Assad
I had a nasty shock when I switched on my TV on Sunday. It was clearly a propaganda film with…
Leyte Gulf is the greatest naval battle you’ve never heard of
When you think of great naval engagements, the Battle of Leyte Gulf does not immediately spring to mind, despite it…
India will never join China’s anti-western alliance
On the 15 November Xi Jinping will mark the 12th anniversary of his becoming general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party…
Tesla is in trouble if Kamala Harris wins
In the third century BC the city of Rhodes, in celebration of the defeat of Demetrius I of Macedonia, built…
The long-forgotten history of the Chagos Islands
Now that Sir Keir Starmer has unilaterally decided to give up British ownership of the Chagos Islands, the last vestige…
Why Taiwan is pulling down statues of Chiang Kai-shek
While the West obsesses about whether or not China’s supreme leader, Xi Jinping, is going to invade Taiwan, the Taiwanese…
Narendra Modi is unbeatable
Voting in India’s national elections started last Friday. It will take six weeks to complete, which is less of a…
The West’s shameful silence on Imran Khan’s imprisonment
Donald Trump should spare a thought for Imran Khan. If the former US president feels overrun by lawsuits, he could…
The long and bloody history of tunnel warfare
Tunnel fighting has always been a problem. As Israel battles in Gaza against some 5,000 Hamas fighters embedded in buildings,…
The first world war wasn’t the first world war
For reasons that not even Czechs can explain, in the past they developed a habit of throwing their rulers out…
How an American racing driver and war in Mongolia helped to defeat Hitler
Of all the ‘practice’ wars that preceded the main events of the second world war, including the Spanish civil war…
The forgotten end of the second world war
Two weeks ago, VJ day (Victory over Japan day) celebrated the end of the Pacific War. On 15 August 1945…
