Patrick Cockburn

Patrick Cockburn’s past columns can now be found at The I. Patrick Cockburn is the author of War in the Age of Trump (Verso).

The Crippling of Britain in the Age of Brexit

April 9, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

Theresa May’s Appalling Legacy Will be the Destruction of the Good Friday Agreement

April 2, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

How ISIS’s Brutal Project in the Middle East was Finally Overthrown

March 26, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

The Brutal Legacy of Bloody Sunday is a Powerful Warning to Those Hoping to Save Brexit

March 19, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

The Political Class’s Disregard for Irish Life

March 12, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

Stupid, Stupid, Stupid English

March 5, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

Forget the Blunders on Brexit and Foreign Policy, the ISIS Mother and Her Infant are the “Real Threat”

February 25, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

She Didn’t Start the Fire: Why Attack the ISIS Bride?

February 19, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

Trump Says ISIS is Defeated, But He Ignores the Much Bigger and More Troubling Picture

February 11, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

Brexit in the Context of British History

February 6, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

A Plague of Rats: How Years of Austerity Prompted Many Britons to Vote for Brexit

February 5, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

Trump Doesn’t Always Get It Wrong on the Middle East

January 30, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

The West Failed to Learn the Most Important Lessons From the Rise and Fall of ISIS

January 29, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

On the Brink of Brexit: the Only Thing Most People Outside Westminster Know About Brexit is That It’s a Mess

January 22, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

Refugees Are in the English Channel Because of Western Interventions in the Middle East

January 15, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

Brexit Bluster: a Sorry Tale About a Country that Wanted to ‘Take Back Control’

January 8, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

From Bizarre Rage Against James Joyce to MI5 Phone-Bugging: Why I Collect Snippets of Strangers’ Conversations

January 1, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

Trump’s Syrian Withdrawal: an Act of Political Realism

December 31, 2018 BY Patrick Cockburn

Trump’s Abrupt Withdrawal From Syria Might Provide Exactly the Anarchic Conditions in Which ISIS has Always Flourished

December 21, 2018 BY Patrick Cockburn

Will Anger in Washington Over the Murder of Khashoggi End the War in Yemen?

December 18, 2018 BY Patrick Cockburn

The Yemeni Dead: Six Times Higher Than Previously Reported

December 14, 2018 BY Patrick Cockburn

Brexit Britain’s Crisis of Self-Confidence Will Only End in Tears and Rising Nationalism

December 10, 2018 BY Patrick Cockburn

Britain’s Naive Exceptionalism

December 3, 2018 BY Patrick Cockburn

Why the Brexiteers May be More Dangerous Than Trump

November 27, 2018 BY Patrick Cockburn

What Can We Learn From a Headmaster Who Refused to Allow His Students to Celebrate Armistice Day?

November 20, 2018 BY Patrick Cockburn

The Midterm Results are Challenging Racism in America in Unexpected Ways

November 13, 2018 BY Patrick Cockburn

My Childhood Experience of Polio Taught Me an Important Lesson About the Effects of Migration on Healthcare

November 6, 2018 BY Patrick Cockburn

The Death Toll in Yemen is Five Times Higher Than We Think…How Much Longer Will We Shrug Off Responsibility?

October 29, 2018 BY Patrick Cockburn

Leak by Leak: Erdogan Exerts His Leverage Over the Saudis

October 24, 2018 BY Patrick Cockburn

The Middle East, Not Russia, Will Prove Trump’s Downfall

October 23, 2018 BY Patrick Cockburn

When Saudi Arabia’s Credibility is Damaged, So is America’s

October 17, 2018 BY Patrick Cockburn

The Saudi Atrocities in Yemen are a Worse Story Than the Disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi

October 15, 2018 BY Patrick Cockburn

After Four Decades of Chaos is Iraq Finally Stabilizing?

October 10, 2018 BY Patrick Cockburn

Cracks in the House of Saud

October 9, 2018 BY Patrick Cockburn

Russia’s New Missile Defense System in Syria May Change Balance of Power in Middle East

October 5, 2018 BY Patrick Cockburn

With ISIS Defeated, Trump Targets Iran

October 2, 2018 BY Patrick Cockburn

How Putin Came Out on Top in Syria

September 25, 2018 BY Patrick Cockburn

Iraq’s Prime Ministers Come and Go, But the Stalemate Remains

September 24, 2018 BY Patrick Cockburn

The Adults in the White House Trying to Save the US From Trump Are Just as Dangerous as He Is

September 17, 2018 BY Patrick Cockburn

Why the World Should Care About What Happens in Basra

September 11, 2018 BY Patrick Cockburn

If the Troubles Return After Brexit, It Won’t Just be Because of the Irish Border Issue

September 4, 2018 BY Patrick Cockburn

Fool on the Hill: the Bombast of Boris Johnson

August 7, 2018 BY Patrick Cockburn

The Ongoing Decline of British Power

August 2, 2018 BY Patrick Cockburn

What Boris Johnson Doesn’t Know About British History

July 23, 2018 BY Patrick Cockburn

Iraqi Protests: “Bad Government, Bad Roads, Bad Weather, Bad People”

July 20, 2018 BY Patrick Cockburn

Trump Knows That the US Can Exercise More Power in a UK Weakened by Brexit

July 16, 2018 BY Patrick Cockburn

Is ISIS About to Lose Its Last Stronghold in Syria?

July 13, 2018 BY Patrick Cockburn

When ISIS is Gone, Iraq Will Remain a Deeply Corrupt Country

July 10, 2018 BY Patrick Cockburn

Haunted by a Legacy of Hatred: Fear of ISIS’s Return in Iraq

July 6, 2018 BY Patrick Cockburn

Iraq is Threatened by Catastrophic Drought

July 4, 2018 BY Patrick Cockburn