ONLINE Only: Time to Stop Pawning the Palestinians
By hijacking the Palestinian cause, the non-Arab world has perpetuated the conflict for its own regional standing. The Arab world must reclaim it There was a time when it was accurate to
Oxford Literary Festival — Day One
Online only: Commentary from the opening day of the Oxford Literary Festival It’s the first day of the Oxford Literary festival, and the brooding elephant sky swaddles the main marquee with a
Journo Listless
‘The image of the newspaperman as a suave but ballsy individual who, whisky in hand, wires copy to a smoke-filled newsroom is now incredibly remote’
Coming to America
'Should we treat assimilation not as a taboo subject but as an opportunity?'
A Tale of Two Presidents
'In the Old World, a leader is criticised — and quits — for being too emotional. In the New World, a leader is criticised for not being emotional enough'
Avigdor Arikha (1929-2010): an appreciation
Avigdor Arikha, who died in Paris on April 29 aged 81, was one of the most interesting and accomplished of an internationally renowned group of figurative artists who dominated the latter decades
Paula Rego
Dame Paula Rego claims never to have read Freud — a nice irony given that her psychologically complex works, deeply imbued with the sexual and the sinister, are as ripe for analysis
Istanbul: Press Freedom Alla Turca
'When Western journalists note in a casual aside that press freedom has experienced certain setbacks under the AKP, they are failing to do justice to the severity of this calamity and its
Johannesburg: Hard Pressed
'I would like to think that all the politically correct Brits who lined up to condemn me for "juxtapositional racism" might say a word or two about the extinction of media freedom
Bajaur: A Talk with the Taliban
‘At last, a familiar sight: we drive past a Johnson & Johnson factory. “This place can’t be that bad,” I tell myself. “Daniel Pearl was executed near here,” the driver says unprompted.