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Jonathan FreedlandThe Guardian |
You’ll be ahead of me on this one. By the time you read this, it’s possible that Israel will have hit back in response to the nearly 200 ballistic...
I hesitate to give JD Vance any ideas, but if American women were denied the vote, Donald Trump would be restored to the White House in a landslide....
They probably thought the world would applaud. The Israeli planners behind one of the most spectacular intelligence actions in the country’s history...
It’s hard to say that the honeymoon is over, because it never really began. You can’t blame Labour for that: it warned voters before the election...
Does an early Nobel peace prize beckon for Keir Starmer? Could the new prime minister be poised to surpass the achievement of Barack Obama, who...
Everything is going right for her and wrong for him. Kamala Harris has the encouraging poll numbers and, more precious still, the momentum. Donald...
One man is missing. Of course, it’s good that so many of those responsible for a week of terrifying far-right violence are facing an especially...
You can see why they think he’s God’s anointed one. You can understand why Republicans cheered when Donald Trump repeatedly claimed the divine as...
It’s just a game, right? Wrong. You don’t have to be on nodding terms with, let alone a fan of, the beautiful game to see that Sunday’s final of...
What was the worst moment? Perhaps when one especially rambling sentence of Joe Biden’s ended in a mumbled, confused declaration that “We finally...
Where the lettuce led, could Labour follow? Could the party of Keir Starmer repeat the success of a household vegetable and defeat Liz Truss in her...
No drama Starmer. No surprises at Thursday’s manifesto launch, no rabbits, no hats. Some in the audience are getting restless. Reporters yawn, or...
But is it art? Could that explain Rishi Sunak’s campaign – that it is, in fact, a piece of daring, innovative performance art in which the prime...
It took little more than nine hours of deliberation for a New York jury to ensure Donald Trump a new place in history. He was already the first US...
Prisons tend not to draw political attention except when they go wrong, and even then they have to go badly wrong. There are strong incentives for...
Elections are a choice about the future, they say. We should look forward, not back, they say. And most of the time, that’s true. But every now and...
The smile was the giveaway. Asked whether he was “just a copycat” of Tony Blair at the launch of his Blair-style pledge card on Thursday, Keir...
Beware cornering a US president anxious about re-election. Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly ignored that advice in his dealings with Joe Biden, and...
It was not an opinion poll. These were local elections about local issues. The results tell you only about where we are now, not where we might be...
Here we go again: Britannia will continue to rule at the Last Night of the Proms. Unveiling a wide-ranging programme for this year’s festival, Sam...
Beware the friend who is only trying to help. Not, perhaps, as a rule for life but certainly when it comes to the Israel-Palestine conflict and the...
When it comes to the Middle East, it’s the pessimists who look smartest. Predict the worst and you’ll rarely be proved wrong. If you are, it’s...
It wasn’t the Kennedy assassination, but I remember exactly where I was on 3 October 1995 when a Los Angeles jury delivered its verdict in the OJ...
Six months after the attacks of 7 October, and it’s time to count again the losses. They begin with the dead, with the 1,200 Israelis killed on that...
The pictures out of Gaza get more harrowing with each passing day. After months of witnessing civilians grieving for loved ones killed by bombs, now...
We’re at the fag-end of this government, but it’s going to burn for a while longer yet. Those who hoped it might finally be stubbed out of its...
The president of the United States delivered his annual address to Congress on Thursday night – except what Americans and an increasingly nervous...
You’re going to hear a lot of talk about George Galloway in the coming days, much of it negative and almost all of it true. But there will be one...
How do you put a value on culture? In this age of austerity, a political, philosophical question is too easily reduced to painful choices. Would you...
Both sides in the war between Israel and Hamas now face a fresh set of fateful choices. The decisions they take in the next two weeks are not only a...
Jews dread the news. Maybe the entire population feels that way these days: waking to a morning bulletin consisting of wars abroad, recession at home...
You’d think a week spent in the snow and ice of New Hampshire, watching Donald Trump stroll to a double-digit victory over his last remaining...
The few Republicans who have not succumbed to the cult of Donald Trump cling to one last hope. They are crossing their fingers that on Tuesday night...
There was so much history and so much tragedy in that room. For two days, ending today, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague...
It is not a prediction, but it is a possibility – and a growing one. Barring a major upset, Donald Trump is on course to be the Republican nominee...
Think of it as yet another invented tradition. There are a lot of them about at this time of year, but here’s mine. In recent years, for the last...
Joe Biden’s bond with Israel and the Jewish people runs so deep he is said to feel it in his kishkes (that’s “guts”, for the non-Yiddish...
When will it end? Some ask that question in despair, willing an end to the pictures of crushed buildings and destroyed lives, the succession of bleak...