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Wars across the world lead back to one man: Joe Biden

Israel has fired a missile at Isfahan in Iran in retaliation for the volleys of Iranian missiles fired at Israel five days earlier. For the first time...

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The danger of an escalating Middle East conflict grows by the day

Iran and Israel are exchanging punch and counter-punch as the wider world waits to see if there is to be another round of hostilities between the two...

15.04.2024 2

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Iran's attack on Israel shows Gaza will inevitably become a wider war

The Iranian missile attack on Israel has escalated the crisis in the Middle East close to an all-out regional war, much depending on how Israel...

15.04.2024 6

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Iran's attack on Israel shows Gaza will inevitably become a wider war

The Iranian missile attack on Israel has escalated the crisis in the Middle East close to an all-out regional war, much depending on how Israel...

15.04.2024 9

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I reported on the OJ Simpson case - it tells us a lot about America today

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13.04.2024 5

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The Middle East is on the edge of a war against humanity itself

Israel’s military operation is Gaza is failing, as it was always likely to do. As with past Israeli onslaughts on the Palestinians, from Beirut in...

09.04.2024 10

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World leaders finally wake up to the terrible war crimes in Gaza

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06.04.2024 10

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Israel and Iran are getting closer to all-out war

Israel and Iran are edging closer to an open military conflict after an Israeli air strike killed a senior Iranian general and other officers in the...

03.04.2024 2

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Isis will be pleased with the divided response to Moscow massacre

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30.03.2024 10

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Comic opera UK governments have become the new normal

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23.03.2024 5

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Joe Biden’s Gaza blunders could hand Donald Trump the White House

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16.03.2024 7

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The toxic legacy of slavery never dies 

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09.03.2024 10

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Rishi Sunak’s bid to exploit the Gaza conflict is morally bankrupt

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02.03.2024 10

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The new cold war is more dangerous than the old

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24.02.2024 8

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Julian Assange is the ultimate victim of cancel culture

Julian Assange’s lawyers are making their final effort this week to stop the WikiLeaks founder being deported to the US to face espionage charges....

20.02.2024 4

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After Gaza, the West can never again claim the moral high ground

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17.02.2024 8

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A peace deal is needed before Ukraine weakens further

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10.02.2024 10

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Power-sharing will not end Northern Ireland's crises

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03.02.2024 6

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Unionists in decline despite historic Stormont deal

The decision by the DUP to return to Northern Ireland’s power-sharing Executive and Assembly after agreeing to a deal with the UK Government on...

30.01.2024 3

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There are no good options for Biden

It was inevitable that at some point, drone and missile attacks on US bases by Iranian-backed forces in the Middle East would lead to the death of...

29.01.2024 3

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Today’s conflicts are more dangerous than the Cold War

Wars in the Middle East and Ukraine are the wild cards that may determine the outcome of elections in the US and UK in the coming year. The best-laid...

27.01.2024 6

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Democrats' strategy has proved one of the greatest 'own goals' in political history

In the classic Dracula movie Nosferatu, the vampire arrives by ship, rises from his coffin, consumes the crew, and prepares to spread misery and fear...

24.01.2024 2

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Rwanda? The UK’s real disaster is its bankrupt local councils

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20.01.2024 10

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Britain's broken and journalists need to get better at exposing its failures

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13.01.2024 10

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The Gaza conflict has just become another endless international war

The US and UK air strikes on Yemen in retaliation for Houthi attacks on shipping in the Red Sea mean that the Gaza war has finally internationalised....

12.01.2024 3

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Joe Biden has turned the Gaza crisis into a Middle East catastrophe

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06.01.2024 10

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Joe Biden's 'George W Bush' moment

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30.12.2023 6

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Just like the 1930s, the 2020s are becoming the 'devil's decade'

Just like the 30s, the 2020s are shaping up to be the ‘devil’s decade’. “The Devil’s Decade” was the name given to the 30s because of its...

26.12.2023 3

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Just like the 1930s, the 2020s are becoming the 'devil's decade'

Just like the 1930s, the 2020s are shaping up to be the ‘devil’s decade’ “The Devil’s Decade” was the name given to the 1930s because of...

26.12.2023 3

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Johnson and Sunak have 'lost' their WhatsApps – perhaps the Russians can help

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16.12.2023 6

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From Boris Johnson to Rishi Sunak, we are being misruled by very strange people

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09.12.2023 10

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The destruction of Gaza is a giant war crime 

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02.12.2023 4

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Gaza is being destroyed - but is Hamas?

In the first de-escalation in the war in Gaza, Israeli and Palestinian hostages and prisoners are to be exchanged during a four day pause in the...

25.11.2023 5

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David Cameron is the perfect representative for Britain in decay

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18.11.2023 20

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Suella Braverman is doing her feckless best to poison British society

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11.11.2023 10

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Suella Braverman is a pound shop Ian Paisley

In her diatribe against a pro-Palestinian march in London this weekend, Home Secretary Suella Braverman made an ill-informed comparison with marches...

09.11.2023 3

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A ceasefire in Gaza is the only way to end the killing and destruction

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04.11.2023 10

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Airs trikes always target civilians - in Gaza and everywhere else

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28.10.2023 8

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Israel’s claim it will protect civilians is manifestly false

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21.10.2023 5

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President Biden's visit to Israel is a gamble - history is not on his side

President Joe Biden is pursuing two very different and contradictory aims during his visits to Israel and Jordan this week. Declaring that he is fully...

17.10.2023 4

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Israeli air war will destroy Gaza but not Hamas

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14.10.2023 4

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Israel must avoid making the same mistakes the US did after 9/11

Israeli leaders and their allies are describing the Hamas attack out of Gaza on 7 October as Israel’s 9/11, but they fail to understand the...

09.10.2023 3

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Overconfident Israeli military caught out – and not for the first time

The initial success of the Hamas attack on Israel out of Gaza has made the Palestinians once again a visible player on the stage of Middle East –...

09.10.2023 9

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Suella Braverman is as dangerous as Enoch Powell – but for different reasons

“As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding,” declared the Conservative shadow defence minister Enoch Powell in a speech attacking mass...

07.10.2023 6

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Private schools produce a disastrous political elite and must take responsibility for failure

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30.09.2023 3

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Liz Truss fatally misunderstands Britain

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23.09.2023 7

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Derna floods show Libya is a thieves’ kitchen, its leaders a lethal danger to their own people

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16.09.2023 5

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Horror in Libya should be a wake-up call - the West replaced Gaddafi with gangster regimes

I have been watching the destruction of the Libyan coastal city of Derna for a dozen years since I first visited it during the Western-backed...

14.09.2023 8

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Compassionate talk alone won't stop suicides

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09.09.2023 5

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