16+ min ago   (188+ words) The current troubled and glacial diplomatic process between Israel, the US, its ‘Board of Peace’ and the de facto Hamas authority in Gaza is a derivative of a fact which is difficult to swallow for Israelis: namely, that despite two…...

28+ min ago   (498+ words) The Spectator Australia The Green plot for a free speech crackdown If Britain is to avoid the convulsion that afflicted America after the death of George Floyd, measures like those being pursued by the Greens should be taken seriously Published…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1025+ words) The Iran crisis has exposed Britain’s strategic paralysis The Spectator Australia The Iran crisis has exposed Britain’s strategic paralysis I have often joked that in the unlikely event that Iran launched a direct, full-scale attack on Europe, Foreign Office officials…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (721+ words) Before the pandemic, Black Lives Matter and the #MeToo movement turned identity politics from a niche American slogan into a governing cultural logic. What began as a claim to have ‘woken’ to inequality and the inadequacies of liberal democracy quickly…...

6+ day, 6+ min ago   (954+ words) The Spectator Australia When does killing the enemy become murder? When is extrajudicial killing just war by other means, and when does it become a state-sponsored act of terror? ‘We were not terrorists but fighters for freedom who fought with…...

6+ day, 6+ min ago   (658+ words) On his very first day as Colombia’s new President, Abelardo de la Espriella received a dramatic house-warming gift: a billion dollars, courtesy of Donald Trump. Three days later, a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck the country – but correlation is not causation. The…...

6+ day, 6+ min ago   (179+ words) Yedioth Books, pp.511, 20 According to conventional wisdom, David was a proper hero. He slew Goliath; he wrote beautiful psalms; he built Jerusalem. His celebrity prompted a jealous King Saul to try to kill him. The legend of David is just…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (986+ words) The Spectator Australia Iran containment has failed; Europe must enable the transition A democratic and secular Iran would remove one of the main drivers of regional instability and mass migration into Europe The images of thousands of Moroccans pouring across…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (419+ words) As is so often the case when it comes to coverage of Israel and the Middle East, much of the reporting of Israel’s rejection of the Donald Trump-backed ‘roadmap’ to peace in Gaza misses the point. Benjamin Netanyahu is far…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (368+ words) The most important American in the world right now might not be Donald Trump. It could be Scott Bessent, the Treasury Secretary, who is exercising America’s financial muscle in highly interesting ways across the world. This week the US joined…...