It might have been expected that the catastrophe of Iraq and the bloody failure of Afghanistan would have at least dampened the…
The Afghan war, you will remember, was supposed to be the "good war". Unlike the catastrophe of Iraq, from which most former…
Perhaps it’s not surprising that someone who describes himself as phobic about the concept of Islamophobia and thinks that the invasion of…
This week’s forensic exposure by the BBC programme Newsnight of the apparent fabrication of evidence underpinning an inflammatory report into British Muslims…
For weeks a western chorus has been celebrating a new dawn of Middle Eastern freedom, allegedly triggered by the Iraq war. Tony…
The much-vaunted handover, when it came, was a secret hole-in-the-corner affair. There were no celebrations as the US proconsul Paul Bremer signed…
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Fifty years after Fidel Castro and his followers launched the Cuban revolution with an abortive attack on the dictator Batista’s Moncada barracks,…
On the streets of Baghdad yesterday, it was Kabul, November 2001, all over again. Then, enthusiasts for the war on terror were…
By Since the French revolution, the fates of the Jewish people and the left have been closely intertwined. The left’s appeal to…
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