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Non-white leadership of UK has just sort of happened
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Non-white leadership of UK has just sort of happened
Nobody planned it, hardly anybody realised it was happening, and suddenly there it was: done.
World View
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Aid farce lacks more than footwear
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Aid farce lacks more than footwear
Good news!
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Anthropocene cancelled: we’re back in the Holocene era
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Anthropocene cancelled: we’re back in the Holocene era
There has been a decade-long year war within the geological community over what to call the epoch we live in right now, and an international panel of two dozen senior geologists has finally...
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Only Biden can stop the Gaza war
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Only Biden can stop the Gaza war
More than four months into the sixth Arab-Israeli War, during which about 1500 Israelis and 30,000 Palestinians have died, all the major local actors are stuck. Only the United States can stop the...
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Prospect of mass immigration looms
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Prospect of mass immigration looms
It did not end well for Karolina Shiino, the young woman who won the title of Miss Japan two weeks ago.
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A man’s gotta do ... well, what?
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A man’s gotta do ... well, what?
In the immediate aftermath of the massacre of 1140 Israeli civilians by Hamas terrorists last October, US President Joe Biden went to Israel and gave Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu some...
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Meritless or a decisive victory?
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Meritless or a decisive victory?
Israel's defence minister, Yoav Gallant, dismissed the ruling by the International Court of Justice in The Hague on the accusation that Israel is committing genocide in the Gaza Strip with the...
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Sending a message, via missile
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Sending a message, via missile
Not all that long ago, attacking another country’s territory was still seen as a big deal.
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Israel v the ICJ: a waste of time?
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Israel v the ICJ: a waste of time?
The two sides have had their day in court — one day each, actually.
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Foreign support for Sahel ending
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Foreign support for Sahel ending
Last Sunday, the last of 12,000 United Nations peacekeeping troops left Mali, ordered out by the military regime that seized power after two successive coups in 2020 and 2021.
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Spring thaw could be scorching
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Spring thaw could be scorching
Last year was probably the hottest in the past 10,000 years — but everybody agrees that this year will be even hotter.
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A tale of bombing in two wars
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A tale of bombing in two wars
Today (or yesterday, or tomorrow), the known death toll of Palestinians since October 7 will reach 20,000.
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Viva the almost perfectly useless COP
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Viva the almost perfectly useless COP
The key debate on the last day of the COP28 climate summit was about whether or not the conference should endorse a resolution to phase out fossil fuels — or, less ambitiously, phase them "down" ...
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War of pointless killing not ‘just’
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War of pointless killing not ‘just’
"If you were OK with us killing 5000 children, you are OK with killing 10,000 children," Daniel Levy said, a former Israeli diplomat who helped negotiate the Oslo peace accords in the 1990s.
100-year struggle began with Balfour Declaration
100-year struggle began with Balfour Declaration
One hundred years ago this week, in the midst of World War 1, the British government sent a letter known as the Balfour Declaration that led, three decades later, to the creation of the state of...
Unfinished nuclear business
Unfinished nuclear business
Today's Hiroshima does not give television journalists a lot to work with. It is a raucous, bustling, mid-sized Japanese city with only few reminders of its destruction by atomic bomb in 1945.
`Everyone should have listened to the Russians'
`Everyone should have listened to the Russians'
"The Russians had a more realistic analysis of the situation than practically anybody else,'' said Lakhdar Brahimi, the former United Nations special envoy to Syria.
Some sound thinking but simply too much bluster
Some sound thinking but simply too much bluster
Rodrigo Duterte, who has just been elected president of the Philippines, comes across as Donald Trump on stilts.
Lens pans to Clinton presidency
Lens pans to Clinton presidency
Shortly before John Kasich dropped out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination, leaving Donald Trump as the only candidate, the Ohio governor put up a spoof video on the internet.
Iraq the model of a failed state
Iraq the model of a failed state
Property prices in central Baghdad are as high as London's, even though Iraq's national income is down by 70% since the collapse in the oil price.