Patrick Cockburn
The Crippling of Britain in the Age of Brexit
April 9, 2019The Brutal Legacy of Bloody Sunday is a Powerful Warning to Those Hoping to Save Brexit
March 19, 2019The Political Class’s Disregard for Irish Life
March 12, 2019Stupid, Stupid, Stupid English
March 5, 2019Forget the Blunders on Brexit and Foreign Policy, the ISIS Mother and Her Infant are the “Real Threat”
February 25, 2019She Didn’t Start the Fire: Why Attack the ISIS Bride?
February 19, 2019Trump Says ISIS is Defeated, But He Ignores the Much Bigger and More Troubling Picture
February 11, 2019Brexit in the Context of British History
February 6, 2019Trump Doesn’t Always Get It Wrong on the Middle East
January 30, 2019On the Brink of Brexit: the Only Thing Most People Outside Westminster Know About Brexit is That It’s a Mess
January 22, 2019Refugees Are in the English Channel Because of Western Interventions in the Middle East
January 15, 2019From Bizarre Rage Against James Joyce to MI5 Phone-Bugging: Why I Collect Snippets of Strangers’ Conversations
January 1, 2019Trump’s Syrian Withdrawal: an Act of Political Realism
December 31, 2018Trump’s Abrupt Withdrawal From Syria Might Provide Exactly the Anarchic Conditions in Which ISIS has Always Flourished
December 21, 2018The Yemeni Dead: Six Times Higher Than Previously Reported
December 14, 2018Brexit Britain’s Crisis of Self-Confidence Will Only End in Tears and Rising Nationalism
December 10, 2018Britain’s Naive Exceptionalism
December 3, 2018Why the Brexiteers May be More Dangerous Than Trump
November 27, 2018What Can We Learn From a Headmaster Who Refused to Allow His Students to Celebrate Armistice Day?
November 20, 2018The Midterm Results are Challenging Racism in America in Unexpected Ways
November 13, 2018My Childhood Experience of Polio Taught Me an Important Lesson About the Effects of Migration on Healthcare
November 6, 2018The Death Toll in Yemen is Five Times Higher Than We Think…How Much Longer Will We Shrug Off Responsibility?
October 29, 2018Leak by Leak: Erdogan Exerts His Leverage Over the Saudis
October 24, 2018The Middle East, Not Russia, Will Prove Trump’s Downfall
October 23, 2018When Saudi Arabia’s Credibility is Damaged, So is America’s
October 17, 2018The Saudi Atrocities in Yemen are a Worse Story Than the Disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi
October 15, 2018After Four Decades of Chaos is Iraq Finally Stabilizing?
October 10, 2018Cracks in the House of Saud
October 9, 2018Russia’s New Missile Defense System in Syria May Change Balance of Power in Middle East
October 5, 2018With ISIS Defeated, Trump Targets Iran
October 2, 2018How Putin Came Out on Top in Syria
September 25, 2018Iraq’s Prime Ministers Come and Go, But the Stalemate Remains
September 24, 2018The Adults in the White House Trying to Save the US From Trump Are Just as Dangerous as He Is
September 17, 2018Why the World Should Care About What Happens in Basra
September 11, 2018If the Troubles Return After Brexit, It Won’t Just be Because of the Irish Border Issue
September 4, 2018Fool on the Hill: the Bombast of Boris Johnson
August 7, 2018The Ongoing Decline of British Power
August 2, 2018What Boris Johnson Doesn’t Know About British History
July 23, 2018Is ISIS About to Lose Its Last Stronghold in Syria?
July 13, 2018Iraq is Threatened by Catastrophic Drought
July 4, 2018
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