Muslim Brotherhood
Britain is still failing to confront Islamism
How time flies. In March 2014, quite out of the blue, I was commissioned by then prime minister David Cameron…
Death of a dissident: Saudi Arabia and the rise of the mobster state
As someone who spent three decades working closely with intelligence services in the Arab world and the West, the Saudi…
Jeremy Corbyn is either deeply sinister – or a total idiot
The crowd were singing ‘Oh, Jeremy Corbyn’ again, at a festival in Cornwall, the words appended to a riff by…
The Islamist Nazis and Corbyn’s wilful blindness
Many people watching Jeremy Corbyn’s interview on Marr last Sunday will have been shocked by his remarks about the need…
General paralysis
America has let Egypt’s old military oligarchs take hold again. Must it carry on paying for them, too?
Portrait of the week
Home George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, made ‘a commitment to fight for full employment in Britain’ and for…
Hard times for Hamas
The party is out of favour with its foreign neighbours and with ordinary Gazans
Kidnaps and killings in Cameron’s happy place
A few days ago I went to a talk about Syria; one of those events for the concerned layman, in…
Myths of the modern-day pharoahs
Jonathan Rugman is foreign affairs correspondent for Channel 4 News.
How to run a revolution
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood should have learnt from Nasser
