Israel and Palestine: is optimism suddenly not so crazy after all?
Sharon’s Knesset speech seems to confirm many of the controversial points made recently by a middle east analyst
Category: International Affairs
International law on humanitarian intervention
About an important article by the former assistant legal adviser in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Elizabeth Wilmshurst, who did resign over Iraq
Admitting evidence got by torture: a Commonwealth view
The harm that will be done to Britain’s standing abroad if the judgment of the Court of Appeal permitting the home secretary to rely on information got by torture is allowed to stand
The charge against Tony Blair – and the others
Iraq: the real charge against Tony Blair — and his colleagues
The US Presidential and Vice-Presidential Debates
I scored Senator Kerry a clear winner in the first of the presidential debates, relieved to find the President as inarticulate and generally ill-informed (not to mention petulant and irritable) as anyone could have dared to hope
A controversial view of Israel-Palestine
A discussion with a prominent and experienced middle east analyst
UN and Iraq: Blair’s version of history
My letter in the Independent about how the prime minister tried to re-write history once again over who was responsible for the failure to secure UN authority for the attack on Iraq
Iraq: promises, promises, broken, broken
None of Mr Blair’s conditions for war was satisfied: there was no UN resolution authorising the use of force, no support for such a resolution by a majority of members of the Security Council, and no veto, unreasonable or otherwise, nor any need for one.