The curious life of a foreign minister’s wife
The Polish constitution delineates no role for the foreign minister’s wife. In fact, the foreign minister’s wife is not mentioned…
The poisoning of Putin critic Alexei Navalny
Alexei Navalny, the most important opposition leader in Russia, is unconscious in hospital after drinking poisoned tea on an airplane.…
Letter from Strasbourg
‘Epiphany.’ That was the word that Robert Rowland, soon-to-be-ex-MEP for the Brexit party, used to describe his discovery of the…
How Orbán duped the Brexiteers
To the inhabitants of the British Isles, the nations of central Europe have always existed in a semi–mythical space, near…
He speaks for America
Don’t fool yourself about the anti-Brexit consensus in the US – or the excellent reasons for it
Israel notebook
Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Croatia, Morocco: if I had picked anywhere else on the Mediterranean for a family holiday, at…
Putin’s grand strategy
The Russian President has been trying to draw a new Iron Curtain across Europe
Russia falling
Will Putin’s people still love him when the money dries up? He’s about to find out
Don Quixote of Kaszubia
In 1993, John Borrell, a longtime foreign correspondent with no permanent home, decided to abandon journalism. Tired of writing about…
Hiding in plain sight
A building bearing testimony to the power of eternal Russia; a timeless symbol of the Russian state; a monument to…
Missile morality
Our leaders should stop talking about ‘justice’ in Syria – honesty may be the best and only realistic policy
