What is Putin’s endgame in Syria?
Familiar, depressing images emerge from Ghouta in Syria: rows of tiny white shrouds, children killed in relentless airstrikes, makeshift hospitals,…
In defence of Christopher Steele
There are two Trump-Russia ‘conspiracies’. In one, the US President is bought or blackmailed by the Kremlin. In the other,…
A day of reckoning is coming for America’s muddled Middle East policies
Beirut ‘If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense,’ said Alice. ‘Nothing would be what it…
Special counsel Robert Mueller is closing in on Paul Manafort – and Trump should be worried
Kiev Before he was Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort worked for the president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych. Yanukovych started…
The true Trump scandal
Washington DC The National Enquirer presented Trump watchers with a mystery last week. Why did it print an attack on…
Trump’s eastern front
Kiev There is no lavatory paper to be found in government buildings in Kiev. Plan ahead, locals advise, if you…
A junior scandal
On the main allegations of collusion with Russia, there’s still no smoking gun
Big trouble in little Qatar
Washington DC At 8:06 on Tuesday morning the Tweeter-in-Chief reached for his Android phone and told the world: ‘During my…
The madness of King Donald
Washington DC The panhandlers outside the White House hold signs saying: ‘Trump is President — saving to leave the country.’…
Poison, spies and lies
Washington DC Roger Stone — political consultant, agent provocateur, friend and confidant of Donald Trump — arrives for lunch…
Poison, spies and lies
Washington DC Roger Stone — political consultant, agent provocateur, friend and confidant of Donald Trump — arrives for lunch…
‘Isis? Bomb those suckers’
These are the last days of the ‘caliphate’. The place Isis made their capital, Raqqa, in Syria, is encircled and…
