Xenophobia runs the world
From Washington to Copenhagen and Pretoria, blaming migrants has become the easiest governing strategy of our time.
opinions
Netanyahu will win again, because in Israel, ‘there is none like him’
His supporters defend him, his opponents cannot look past him and the centre keeps trying to bargain with him.
The age of unipolar diplomacy is coming to an end
Gaza has exposed the limits of US power and opened space for new centres of global diplomacy.
Bangladesh’s economy is not collapsing but undergoing a necessary reset
Long-ignored problems are finally being fixed, pointing to recovery rather than decline.
Europe should seize Russia’s frozen assets now
With US aid stalled, only Moscow’s immobilised billions can keep Ukraine fighting.
The illusion of Western peacemaking
When peacemaking ignores truth, it risks turning war crimes into opinion and genocide into a story with two sides.
The man who broke the BBC
I saw how Robbie Gibb’s behind-the-scenes influence helped drive the BBC into crisis.
Egypt’s all-important parliamentary elections aren’t elections at all
The vote is carefully managed so that only one outcome is possible: a longer lease on power for el-Sisi.
Israel is now at the centre of a Republican civil war
Trump’s break with Greene exposes a deeper struggle inside the American right over what ‘America First’ truly means.
It is Israel, not Gaza, that needs stabilisation
Global powers are trying to stabilise Gaza with the help of its tormentor.