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Taking things for granted. Or, as a very dear friend of mine used to say to me, “There you go.” I am…
Robert Fisk
Robert Fisk, Middle East correspondent of The Independent, is the author of Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War (London: André Deutsch, 1990). He holds numerous awards for journalism, including two Amnesty International UK Press Awards and seven British International Journalist of the Year awards. His other books include The Point of No Return: The Strike Which Broke the British in Ulster (Andre Deutsch, 1975); In Time of War: Ireland, Ulster and the Price of Neutrality, 1939-45 (Andre Deutsch, 1983); and The Great War for Civilisation: the Conquest of the Middle East (4th Estate, 2005).
On Monday, George Bush was praising the greedy sectarian politicians here – who had totally failed to meet the new Iraqi constitution…
It makes you want to scream. I have been driving the dingy, dangerous, oven-like streets of Baghdad all week, ever more infested…
The Baghdad morgue is a fearful place of heat and stench and mourning, the cries of relatives echoing down the narrow, foetid…
Behind ramparts of concrete and barbed wire, the framers of Iraq’s new constitution wrestled yesterday to prevent – or bring about -…
There’s the wreckage of a car bomb that killed seven Americans on the corner of a neighbouring street. Close by stands the…
It was the same lunatic corkscrew landing in the same little Lebanese plane, barrelling down into the sandstorm of Baghdad airport. Piloting…
“If you bomb our cities,” Osama bin Laden said in a recent videotape, “we will bomb yours.”‘ It was clear Britain would…
Long live Ridley Scott. I never thought I’d say this. Gladiator had a screenplay that might have come from the Boy’s Own…
There he was, just as his victims looked on his own television screens, his words censored, his arguments unknown, his case as…