“The war between George W. Bush and Osama Bin Laden defeated both of its protagonists,” says Gilles Kepel in his…
Continue reading →Can Obama change the Middle East? No, he can’t
Patrick Tyler provides a misguided excuse for America’s ongoing role in the catastrophe that is the Middle East, says Charles…
Continue reading →The Cordelia Dream
Wilton’s Music Hall 11 Dec – 10 Jan 2009 The Royal Shakespeare Company’s felicitous selection of Wilton’s Music Hall in…
Continue reading →Time to end the second prohibition
Salvation was in the air. Repeal, also, was in the air. Two weeks before, the lame-duck Congress had turned a…
Continue reading →Obituary: John Cooley: Scholar-reporter on the Middle East
John Cooley covered the Middle East for American newspapers and radio from 1953 until his death. As correspondent of The…
Continue reading →The power network
Publicly, Israel will not do business with those who do not recognise it. But behind the scenes is a complex…
Continue reading →An antidote to the lies about Iraq
If you want the truth about the ‘Iraq War’, two books by Patrick Cockburn are a good place to start,…
Continue reading →Farewell, my father: the sun sets on my horizon
Charles Glass pays tribute to the man who was his measure in all things, and whom he thought, like all…
Continue reading →Obituary of Imad Mougnieh: Elusive Hizbollah leader
The United States had credited Mougnieh with the 1983 bombing of its embassy in Beirut and the destruction of the…
Continue reading →Stay the course
There was enough brass in the room to forge a cannon. The generals were all there, the joint chiefs and…
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