How low birth rates could threaten our civilization
The village we moved to in central Italy is lovely — old stone houses and olive trees on a hillside…
Have the Houthis gone rogue?
The US and Britain really didn’t think they had a choice about bombing Yemen in retaliation for Houthi attacks on…
Can the killing of innocent civilians ever be justified?
Israel has made the first, rather tentative, moves of its ground operation against Hamas – but there’s nothing tentative about…
Can Israel’s hostages be saved?
The last message that Shaked Haran saw from her father was just after 7.30 a.m. on the Saturday of the…
Unholy war
What Iran gains from provoking Israel
Prigozhin sent ‘to hell’, but who gave the order?
As the first reports came in that Yevgeny Prigozhin had been killed, I spoke to Marat Gabidullin, who was a…
Crime and punishment
What went on between Putin and Prigozhin?
Prigozhin’s bid for death or glory
Up until this point, it was possible to believe that Putin was tolerating, or even orchestrating Yevgeny Prigozhin’s increasingly outspoken…
Long game
How Saudi Arabia is buying the world
Shadow play
The covert war between Iran and Israel
‘The palace destroyed me’
Meet the architect accused of building Putin’s $1 billion property
Regime change
Is Iran at a turning point?
Assad’s little helper
The drug that’s funding the Syrian regime
The cornered rat
Will Putin push the button to save himself?
When the Queen worked her magic on the BBC
The Queen and Prince Philip had written their names in the visitors’ book at a country house where I was…
Oil on troubled waters
Is Biden ready to let MBS get away with murder?
Europe’s last dictator
The fate of Lukashenko depends on Ukraine
Chernobyl Two?
The electricity supply to the ruined nuclear plant at Chernobyl in Ukraine has been cut off. According to one knowledgeable…
Meet the 72-year-old British colonel taking on the Russians in Ukraine
Some citizens of Nato countries are in Ukraine to fight. They are members of the new International Brigade the Ukrainians…
‘Help us, before it’s too late’
Western Ukraine Outside a military recruiting centre in Lviv, Egor Grushin, one of Ukraine’s most famous classical pianists, was waiting…
Will Putin now roll on to Kiev?
The White House told us with absolute certainty that there would be an invasion of Ukraine this week — instead…
Russian roulette
Is Moscow’s bluff backfiring?
Putin’s big bluff
My first visit to Ukraine was in 1994. We drove to a village about three hours south of Kiev. The…
Corporation facts
The BBC must ask itself if Nadine Dorries has a point
Daughters for sale
Afghans are growing desperate
