I can’t say that I’ve ever had a strong opinion – or any opinion – about Sean Penn. I may have watched a film he was in, and I booked but didn’t get as far as the...
How have the Labour Party’s prospects been changed by Alex Salmond’s dash for independence?
‘They’ve been calling me Al-Ghadab, “Fury”, from the beginning,’ the smuggler said, his big beard split by a mischievous smile, ‘But I laugh all the...
Numerous reports attest that the drones have inflamed public opinion across Pakistan as well as Afghanistan. It may be true, as Obama has claimed, that ‘most of al-Qaida’s top lieutenants have been...
Nuclear weapons have given rise to a multibillion-pound industry: the nonproliferation complex.
Putting equity, social and financial, back into banking is essential if the financial system is to be durably repaired.
I don’t bother to vote anymore, but the first vote I ever cast was against Mitt Romney.
It’s hard to say what’s changed since the 2007 Duma elections, but from November you could sense something happening on the streets of Moscow.
How is it that the members of a species as greedy, quarrelsome, egoistic and deceitful as ours still manage to live together in sufficiently harmonious societies?
Protest is becoming a normal feature of the global political landscape, in which the Russian crowds seem like a belated, wintry addition.
In this podcast, Jeremy Harding reads extracts from his essay about migration. The full article is below. A young, personable man who speaks fair English, Hamraz had been in Dunkirk for about...
Even while the bodies of the drowned were being retrieved from the wreck of the Costa Concordia, the stricken cruise ship was being freighted with allegorical significance by the Italian and...
Germany is Europe’s paymaster. Even Franco-German summits are now really ‘German-German summits’, Romano Prodi said recently. But is Germany also becoming Europe’s...
‘They’re not going to stop,’ Joe McCarthy said of the Communists. ‘It’s right here with us now. Unless we make sure there’s no infiltration of our government,...
The new headquarters of the African Union have been built on the site of Addis Ababa’s former central prison, officially called Akaki, but known in Ethiopia as Alem Bekagn, or...
How did Bill Gates become the richest man in America? His wealth has nothing to do with Microsoft producing good software at lower prices than its competitors, or ‘exploiting’ its...
How to characterise the Putin regime, a now shaken and besieged ruling group sometimes said to be the richest in the history of the world? ‘Soft authoritarianism’, ‘hybrid...
The recent Brussels summit to save the euro was a strange affair, and not just because of the quixotic behaviour of the British delegation. It was presided over by two politicians who were giving...