‘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
Colin Powell: A great man – and a failure
My memory of Colin Powell feels personal, even though we were 6000 miles apart at the time. I was in…
Goodbye to Beirut
What has happened to Lebanon is a tragedy
Mission unaccomplished
The West’s war in Afghanistan was always doomed
Fuelling the fire
Lebanon is trapped in a nightmare of its own making
Triumph of the Taleban
Their patience is paying off
The warm-up
If Iran steps in, the worst is still to come
Migrant smuggling is one of Lebanon’s last businesses
Ibrahim Lachine sold his mother’s furniture to pay for a place on a smuggler’s boat from Lebanon to Cyprus and…
Isis’s weakness is now its strength
As coronavirus swept the globe a year ago, Isis began issuing pronouncements. ‘God, by his will, sent a punishment to…
Stop the real steal
If you want to get rich, start a religion. The line actually comes from Orwell, but is ofter (and entirely…
Biden’s speech impediment
Does Joe Biden write his own speeches? Surely not. Yet his campaign says Biden was his own speechwriter for the address he made…
Iran vs the rest
The next six weeks will be crucial for the Middle East
The inevitability of Trump 2024
Donald Trump’s increasingly outrageous attempts to contest the results of the US presidential election were given their absurd symbol early…
Trump 2024! He definitely lost – but he’s not finished yet
Donald Trump’s increasingly outrageous attempts to contest the results of the US presidential election were given their absurd symbol early…
Donald Trump is preparing to strike his greatest deal yet
A New Yorker cartoon shows Donald Trump in an orange jumpsuit. Until last night, his enemies could enjoyably salivate over…
‘I lied for Trump, but that doesn’t make me a liar’
Michael Cohen on the cult of The Donald
Will Trump refuse to leave?
At a drinks party in Washington DC just after Donald Trump was elected, someone from the old regime told me: ‘This…
The hostages’ president
President Trump has tweeted that, among other things he’s best at, he is ‘the greatest hostage negotiator in the history…
Pardon Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden says he didn’t mean to end up in Russia when he fled the United States to leak secrets…
Shock waves
The mood in Lebanon is for revolution
