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Looking for Katrin: Rory MacLean goes in search of his dead wife
In an attempt to find some meaning in his grief, the author explores how different faiths, philosophies or ‘timeless traditions’ embrace the afterlife
The man who could topple Benjamin Netanyahu
The year is 2019 and, after almost a full term in office, Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government of right-wing and religious…
Will Hamas really disarm?
No one imagined that Hamas would voluntarily hand over its weapons and turn to politics and peace in the Gaza…
Does the Donroe Doctrine support Argentina on the Falklands?
So FIFA is going to take action against the Argentinian players for unfurling their “Las Malvinas son Argentinas” banner after…
America is still gripped by the gerontocracy
What do senior Republican Senator Mitch McConnell and Iran’s new Supreme Leader have in common? Not a lot, except that…
Israel’s plan for a new Iran war
Metaphorically speaking, champagne bottles were uncorked in the Jerusalem office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after Donald Trump declared…
Will Bibi go into exile?
In January 2027, Benjamin Netanyahu could leave office for the final time. In the middle of a corruption trial at…
Can Israel fend off Hezbollah without alienating America?
As the 60-day period of negotiations stipulated by the Memorandum of Understanding between Iran and the US gets under way,…
Iran is a loser’s victory
After years of negotiations, two wars, a succession of ruthlessly quashed uprisings in Iran and countless billions of dollars’ worth…
For J.D. Vance, Israel is the new Ukraine
J.D. Vance didn’t call Benjamin Netanyahu out by name, but in sternly reprimanding the “Cabinet of the Israeli government” from…
Only Iran is happy with Trump’s peace deal
President Trump might have thought that negotiating an interim diplomatic understanding with Iran was going to be the hard part.…
Is Trump going to defund Israel?
Cutting US military aid to Israel was once an impossible dream of the most extreme fringe of the Democratic party.…
Sixteen times that Trump nearly ended the Iran war
Today marks a hundred days since America and Israel began launching strikes on Iran on February 28. The very next…
Is the US-Israel alliance breaking down?
This morning at 5.53am, air raid sirens sounded across Tel Aviv. War-weary locals largely went about their business as usual…
Portrait of the week: Sturgeon speaks, Henry Nowak’s killer is jailed and Mandelson’s messages are released
Home Vickrum Digwa, 23, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 21 years for the murder of Henry…
I refuse to be cancelled
I have been opening a play. It is called Allegra and is about a woman who is relentlessly happy. This…
Where Thomas Massie went wrong
What happens when a Republican congressman turns his primary election into a referendum on Donald Trump? What happens when he…
Anti-Semitism is a virus – and it’s spreading
To eradicate a virus, one needs precision. The origin of the threat needs to be identified, as do the circumstances…
The inverted imperialism of the royal visit
It’s hard not to feel sorry for Christian Turner, the UK’s new ambassador in Washington. He’s only been in post…
Worried your child is being radicalised? Try this tip
A couple of weeks ago, the Guardian published an article entitled: ‘“I feel like I’m losing her”: the families torn…
Tea-towel-gate is everything wrong with modern Britain
During last September’s freshers’ fair at Royal Holloway, University of London, two students got into a brief verbal tiff that…
Who’s actually winning the wars in the Middle East?
If you read the New York Times or watch the foreign policy establishment’s “best and brightest,” you will be told,…
Israel won’t stop in Lebanon until Hezbollah is crushed
Direct US-brokered talks between Israeli and Lebanese representatives are set to take place in Washington this week. The Israeli delegation…
The winners and losers of the Iran ceasefire deal
The abrupt announcement of a two-week ceasefire in the war between the US, Israel and Iran resolves none of the…
Iran’s secret weapon of self-sacrifice
Much has been made of the adjective ‘asymmetric’ when discussing warfare in recent years. The word enjoys a renewed currency…
