War on Terror
ONLINE ONLY: Barack Obama, Isolationist
Barack Obama sounds troublingly like an “America Firster”
Democrats v Autocrats
The Return of History and the End of Dreams by Robert Kagan
ONLINE ONLY: Iraq is not a Four Letter Word
British politicians are ignoring Iraq just when it needs us most
ONLINE ONLY: Alarming but Never Alarmist
Terror and Consent by Philip Bobbitt
ONLINE ONLY: Washington, D.C.: It’s Not Rocket Science!
An American commander explains why Afghanistan is winnable
Oslo: Courage and Cowardice in Scandinavia
The cartoon controversy has cowed all the Nordic countries except Denmark
Faking a Killing
The world reacted with horror when it saw a 12-year-old boy shot dead by Israeli soldiers. But the footage, it transpires, told a lie
Beirut: Hariri — An Assassination Too Far
‘Few opinion-shapers in the West feel outraged enough to condemn it, let alone grasp what is at stake in the Hariri tribunal’
ONLINE ONLY: Put out More Flags
Northern Europeans are tying themselves in knots about patriotism and identity politics
Pristina: Kosovo’s Liberal Islam
Claims that Kosovo is a nest of radical Islam are baseless
Why Remoaners should back Boris
“Boris, ironically, now offers Remoaners the best chance of a soft Brexit, or at least a sensible one. And to those who want a second referendum—’the people’s vote’—there may even be a chance of that too.”
On the road
“In the summer of 1980, in the grip of some Kerouac-ish fantasy, I opted to hitch-hike from Laredo to New York”
Discovering the Great War of China
A third of a million Chinese labourers helped the Allies defeat the Kaiser, but their huge unsung contribution ended in betrayal