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Jonathan FreedlandThe Guardian |
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...
And on the eighth day, the war began anew. After a week of joy and relief for those Israeli families reunited with loved ones held hostage by Hamas,...
Know thine enemy – and know thine ally, too. Too many of those pushing for one outcome or another in the war between Israel and Hamas misjudge the...
There is a special place in hell reserved for people who exploit the pain of others – and it’s becoming very crowded. It’s filling up with those...
Beneath the surface of the war between Israel and Hamas, another conflict rages. In this clash, the battle lines are drawn in a very different place,...
It is difficult for sports other than football to run compelling World Cups because not enough countries play the game to make it truly global – or...
This is not a football match. Though the way some spectators behave, watching from afar, you could be forgiven for making that mistake. At...
You cannot think straight when you’re in pain. That’s truer still when the pain is combined with fury at those who caused it. There’s a reason...
The word pogrom was not meant to exist in Hebrew. In the new Israel, the very idea of Jews being murdered en masse, their children butchered before...
W hat would it be like if Britain had a conservative party? Odd to ask that now, on the eve of the Conservative party conference, but the coming week...
I t’s too soon to write the obituary. Rupert Murdoch’s announcement that he is transitioning – an unlikely combination of words, I grant you –...
I t was only an aside. Keir Starmer wasn’t planning to talk about Brexit, but a subject almost as perilous for his party: migration. Still, Good...
T wo portraits, two very different stories of Britain. Saied Dai’s painting of Theresa May, unveiled this week, is the latest example of what has...
T he tragedy of Joe Biden is that people see his age, his frailty and his ailing poll numbers and they miss the bigger story. Which is that his has...