Egypt
Hard times for Hamas
The party is out of favour with its foreign neighbours and with ordinary Gazans
When is a protest not a protest? When we decide to call it a revolution
It’s ages since I last went on a decent demo and had a bit of a dust-up with the pigs.…
Portrait of the week
Home Britain’s gross domestic product grew by 1.9 per cent last year, the most since 2007, according to the Office…
Myths of the modern-day pharoahs
Jonathan Rugman is foreign affairs correspondent for Channel 4 News.
Portait of the week
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, said that English local authorities would be allowed to receive all the business rates…
The new tomb raiders
In Egypt’s turmoil, many ancient sites are being looted
Wild life
It was towards dusk by the time we had given the tourist police the slip and started climbing the pyramid…
Ancient Athens, modern Egypt
Whatever problems Greeks and Romans faced, a politicised priesthood was not one of them. They might have made three observations…
No shrinking Violet
Evelyn Waugh once recalled the anguish with which he greeted Edith Sitwell’s announcement that ‘Mr Waugh, you may call me…
How to run a revolution
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood should have learnt from Nasser
Arab Spring
Two hundred and forty-years ago next Tuesday, Thomas Gray was buried in his mother’s grave in Stoke Poges churchyard. In…
The real Arab Spring
Middle East protest has its roots not in Islam but in frustrated enterprise
Lessons from Egypt
Democracy and holding elections are not the same thing. There could be no better demonstration of this than the experience…
