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Putin won’t invade Europe - his plan is far more insidious

This is Dispatches, a subscriber-only newsletter from The i Paper normally written by Patrick Cockburn. While Patrick is away, former BBC foreign...

15.08.2026 20

iNews

Paul Wood

Islamism / The strange death of Islamism

Iranians have adopted a new sport in the past few years: knocking the turban from a passing cleric’s head. There are points for technique and for...

05.08.2026 20

The Spectator

Paul Wood

Islamism / The strange death of Islamism

Iranians have adopted a new sport in the past few years: knocking the turban from a passing cleric’s head. There are points for technique and for...

05.08.2026 20

The Spectator

Paul Wood

The strange death of Islamism

Iranians have adopted a new sport in the past few years: knocking the turban from a passing cleric’s head. There are points for technique and for...

04.08.2026 60

The Spectator

Paul Wood

Middle East / The Iran war is Trump’s Suez crisis

Clarissa Eden famously declared that ‘in the past few weeks I have really felt as if the Suez Canal was flowing through my drawing-room’. Does...

01.07.2026 20

The Spectator

Paul Wood

The Iran war is Trump’s Suez crisis

Clarissa Eden famously declared that ‘in the past few weeks I have really felt as if the Suez Canal was flowing through my drawing-room’. Does...

29.06.2026 20

The Spectator

Paul Wood

The Iran war is Trump’s Suez crisis

Clarissa Eden famously declared that ‘in the past few weeks I have really felt as if the Suez Canal was flowing through my drawing-room’. Does...

25.06.2026 30

The Spectator

Paul Wood

How the Saudis wriggled out of the Iran conflict

Some of the highest-paid sportsmen in history, the golfers of the LIV league, had bad news recently. Saudi Arabia said it was pulling out of LIV Golf...

17.05.2026 50

The Spectator

Paul Wood

How the Saudis wriggled out of the Iran conflict

Some of the highest-paid sportsmen in history, the golfers of the LIV league, had bad news recently. Saudi Arabia said it was pulling out of LIV Golf...

14.05.2026 30

The Spectator

Paul Wood

Welcome to the Taco presidency

Among the many gifts the Watergate scandal gave us was Nixon’s White House press secretary declaring: ‘This is the operative statement. The others...

10.04.2026 40

The Spectator

Paul Wood

Welcome to the Taco presidency

Among the many gifts the Watergate scandal gave us was Nixon’s White House press secretary declaring: ‘This is the operative statement. The others...

08.04.2026 50

The Spectator

Paul Wood

Could Iranian drones bomb Britain?

One night in 1909, in Peterborough, a police constable named Kettle looked up and saw ‘a strange cigar-shaped craft passing over the city’. This...

20.03.2026 30

The Spectator

Paul Wood

Inside the daring plan to reclaim the Chagos Islands

Paul Wood has narrated this article for you to listen to. Peros Banhos on the Chagos archipelago looks like your basic tropical island paradise:...

27.02.2026 30

The Spectator

Paul Wood

Putin's hypersonic missiles are his trump card against the West

24.02.2026 30

iNews

Paul Wood

Arctic role: what does Trump really want from Greenland?

22.01.2026 30

The Spectator

Paul Wood

Plane crashes, no medicine and mass panic – how a 'Q-Day' attack on UK would unfold

16.12.2025 50

iNews

Paul Wood

Sheikh it off / Tony Blair will not be welcome in Gaza

27.09.2025 30

The Spectator

Paul Wood

Sheikh it off / Tony Blair will not be welcome in Gaza

27.09.2025 40

The Spectator

Paul Wood

Tony Blair will not be welcome in Gaza

27.09.2025 40

The Spectator

Paul Wood

State of fear / The Alawite women taken as sex slaves in Syria

08.07.2025 30

The Spectator

Paul Wood

State of fear / The Alawite women taken as sex slaves in Syria

08.07.2025 30

The Spectator

Paul Wood

State of fear / The Alawite women taken as sex slaves in Syria

03.07.2025 20

The Spectator

Paul Wood