Isis
Who’s running Libya?
Certainly not the government that Cameron hopes will help fix the migrant crisis. He’d be better off talking to my old driver
Portrait of the week
Home Tom Hayes, aged 35, a former City trader who rigged the Libor rates daily for nearly four years while…
Chekhov by numbers
Chekhov so dominates 19th-century Russian drama that Turgenev doesn’t get much of a look-in. His best known play, A Month…
Letters
What we’re building Sir: I was surprised and frustrated to read Ross Clark’s piece on housing associations in last week’s…
Giving up the fight
“Whether it’s in Iraq, Syria, Libya or elsewhere — as Prime Minister, if I believe there is a specific threat…
Barometer
Gesture politics A royal home movie from 1933 apparently showed the future Queen, aged seven, and her mother giving a…
Vespasian vs Islamic State
As Ahmed Rashid argued last week, it is hard to see what the West is doing in the Middle East,…
Teenage terrors
One of the great moments of my student life was opening the door and seeing visitors step back, shocked. I’d…
Al-Qaeda could end up the big winners in Syria
Fear has driven the Arab states to support the West’s great enemy
Diary
One strange consequence of my job as a foreign correspondent is discovering beautiful places when terrible things happen in them.…
Barometer
Naming terror David Cameron and the BBC argued over what to call the terror group most papers refer to as…
Behind the Black Flag curtain
So you’ve just popped out of town for the day on an errand. And when you get back, everyone has…
You can’t take the Islam out of Islamic State
At last, British politicians have been galvanised into action by the appalling events last weekend in the Tunisian resort of…
Why does no one blame Cameron for Libya?
Call me petulant, but I’m not sure Britain is getting enough credit for our fine, fine work in Libya. The…
Portrait of the week
Home A Bill to enable a referendum on whether voters wanted Britain to ‘remain’ in the European Union figured in…
How to defeat a caliphate
Private military contractors have done wonders against Boko Haram. They could against Isis, too
The will to fight
Isis have it. Who else?
Smash Isis now
Assassinate its leadership, destroy its sense of destiny
Isis rising
In recent months, as the country went through a general election, our focus has been on our own domestic debates.…
Portrait of the week
Home The annual rate of inflation turned negative in April, for the first time since 1960, with deflation of 0.1…
Away from the herd
As Kurdistan reaches for independence, its traditions are dying
Diary
Lunch with the man who hanged Saddam. My irrepressible old Baghdad friend Mowaffak al-Rubaie, Ealing neurologist turned Iraqi national security…
A deadly silence
One Friday, 28 people were rescued by the Italian coastguard when the boat on which they were fleeing Libya capsized in…
Portrait of the week
Home Launching the Conservative party manifesto, David Cameron, the party leader, told voters he wanted to ‘turn the good news…
The jihadi bride and her astonishing dad
Like you, I suspect, I have been terribly worried these last few weeks over the plight of 15-year-old Amira Abase.…
