Turkey
Putin’s great game
In Syria, the Russian leader is on the verge of his biggest – and riskiest – coup yet
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Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, said that if Britain left the European Union, France could stop allowing British officials…
Turkey can’t cope. Can we?
There has been an influx of 2.5 million Syrian refugees, and almost as many again are expected. At this rate, Turkey’s migrant problem is set to become Europe’s
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Home Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council, prepared a paper on the four areas of concern between Britain…
Turkey’s climate of fear
President Erdogan’s increasingly tyrannical regime is suppressing the truth about its war on the Kurds
Tis the season for disagreeing with your spouse about everything
The older I get, the more Scrooge-like I become. I’m dyspeptic, misanthropic, curmudgeonly, parsimonious and unsentimental. Caroline, by contrast, is…
Silent strongman Sergey Shoigu is the real force behind Russia’s military aggression
Sergey Shoigu is the real force behind Putin’s military aggression
Long life
I have always found Thanksgiving, which was celebrated in the United States last week, the most agreeable and least stressful…
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Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, outlined four changes he sought in Britain’s membership of the EU. He wanted to…
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Home The all-party Foreign Affairs Committee urged David Cameron, the Prime Minister, not to press ahead with a Commons vote…
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Home In a speech at the Shanghai stock exchange, George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced a feasibility study…
Battle ready
For most of history, religion and war have been the most powerful social instincts of mankind and its chief collective…
Low life
Last Saturday afternoon, in Venice, 31 Spectator readers, plus Martin Vander Weyer, the great Taki and I came aboard the…
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Home Andrew Burnham described calls from Yvette Cooper, a rival candidate for the Labour leadership, for him to withdraw from…
High life
The wind is maddening and constant, and gets stronger as the sun falls below the horizon. The streets are lined…
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Home A man died when 1,500 migrants tried to enter the Channel Tunnel terminal in Calais in one night. The…
‘The smugglers don’t care’
On a Greek beach, watching migrants’ dinghies arrive from Turkey
High life
I have signed an affidavit for a hearing in the High Court stating that Janan Harb was, to my knowledge,…
High life
When I founded the American Conservative 13 years ago — the purpose being to shine a light on the neocon…
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Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, said of the EU referendum: ‘If you want to be part of the government,…
Celebrations of song and humanity
‘All my life, always and in every way, I shall have one objective: the good of Hungary and the Hungarian…
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Home The prospect of a parliamentary alliance between Labour and the Scottish National Party injected an element of fear into…
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Home Launching the Conservative party manifesto, David Cameron, the party leader, told voters he wanted to ‘turn the good news…
Too little, too late
The atrocities suffered by an estimated one million Armenians in 1915 have been largely ignored by historians and officially denied by the Turks. It’s a centenary we can’t afford to neglect, says Justin Marozzi
Poetry in motion
Quite a hit factory these days, the Hampstead Theatre. The latest candidate for West End glory is Hugh Whitemore’s bio-drama…
