James Snell

Russian terror bombing arrives in Ukraine

10 October 2022 8:22 pm

It depends on when you are reading this but it’s possible that as you do, Russian missiles are still falling…

Isis is wreaking havoc in Afghanistan

4 October 2022 12:10 am

The bomb tore through an examination hall in Kabul on Friday, where students – mostly minority Hazara, mostly young women…

Iran's 'kamikaze' drones take to the skies above Ukraine

27 September 2022 8:23 pm

Ukraine is awash with foreign-made weapons, something that is true of both sides. While Ukraine uses American-made rocket systems, French,…

Has war broken out again between Armenia and Azerbaijan?

13 September 2022 8:40 pm

Overnight, it seems as if a new war might have broken out in Europe. Armenian authorities claim that at least…

Shinzo Abe was Japan’s indispensable conservative

9 July 2022 12:36 am

Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated today while electioneering, was his country’s indispensable man. Prime minister of Japan for much of…

Germany’s stinginess is betraying Ukraine

5 June 2022 5:30 pm

Bafflement is not quite the right word. Instead, Ukrainian officials and their allies now see Germany through a confused form…

Hong Kong is now a police state

12 May 2022 12:11 pm

No one now denies that Hong Kong is a fiefdom of Beijing. Its democratic leaders have been packed off to…

The end of the last Arab Spring success story

26 April 2022 12:21 pm

Visibly, and with very little pretense, Tunisia is sliding into tyranny. In the last two years, its president, Kais Saied,…

Down with the ‘Third World War’ doomsayers

15 April 2022 12:05 pm

Some people are always telling you that the world is soon to end. In the old days many of them…

Madeleine Albright was an idealist overpowered by cynics

24 March 2022 10:06 am

People die at random, of course, but it seems poignant that Madeleine Albright has died at the very moment the…