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My dinner with CIA spooks
New York Although both guilt and innocence fascinate me, I’m not so sure that there is such a thing…
Israel is now the land of ‘Trumpportunity’
On the Israeli side of the Syrian border, near al-Quneitra, you can watch the war. From my vantage point on…
What makes a university a university?
What is a university? Sir: As a former Russell Group vice chancellor, I think that Toby Young’s appeal for more universities…
A Roman emperor’s inauguration to rival Donald Trump’s
Given that Donald Trump is not the most popular president the USA has ever seen, even among his own party,…
The hateful whispers that make me want to move from London to Tel Aviv
It’s time I left London’s anti-Semites behind
Will Donald Trump destroy America’s global role?
On foreign policy, Donald Trump will either win big or destroy decades of American doctrine
The great intellectual bromance of the last century — between Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky
Two brilliant psychologists in the 1970s changed our understanding about the way we think and the choices we make – with momentous consequences, says Steven Poole
Gallows humour is at its darkest in David Grossman’s latest novel
A horse walks into a bar.… David Grossman takes the opening line of an old joke for his title, which…
Here’s what happened when I was mistaken for Donald Trump
New York If only my wordsmith friend Jeremy Clarke had been with me. What fun he’d have had with…
We need another Eisenhower to bring an end to the madness in the Middle East
Sixty years ago this week all hell broke loose: Soviet tanks rumbled into Budapest and put down a nationalist uprising…
I’m far too right-wing for quinoa
After the Fawlty Towers incident, I decided it was best to research the origin and extraction of all future B&B…
Why are Egyptian businessmen always falling off balconies in London?
Ashraf Marwan was an Egyptian-born businessman, a son-in-law to Nasser and a political high-flyer in the administration of Sadat, who…
Hard thinking in Jerusalem
‘Here is a story from the winter days of the end of 1959 and the beginning of 1960,’ announces the…
Let’s throw kosher to the wind... and go veggie in Israel
Julie Burchill samples the delights of Tel Aviv, Israel’s non-stop city
I was in a room full of people who thought the USSR was a force for good in the world
John McTernan patiently defends Israel and nukes to Tottenham Labour party
Way to go, Jeremy Corbyn – root out those Jew-haters!
A long and arduous flight back from the Caucasus, but worth it nonetheless for the meaningful protest we had staged…
Rod Liddle: Labour’s putting me on trial for thought crime
I got an email this week, from a chap called Harry, which began as follows: ‘I am writing to inform you…
Death and retribution in Beersheba
Nordic noir is passé. Now we have Israeli noir. Waking Lions is a mordant thriller written by a clinical psychologist…
Why were we going to Israel? For the winter sunshine, of course
Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Croatia, Morocco: if I had picked anywhere else on the Mediterranean for a family holiday, at…
Niall Ferguson's biography of Henry Kissinger is a masterpiece
I have met Dr Kissinger, properly, only three times. First, in Cairo, in 1980, when, as a junior diplomat escorting…
Feels like Chekhov scripted by a Chekhov app: Three Days in the Country at the Lyttleton reviewed
Chekhov so dominates 19th-century Russian drama that Turgenev doesn’t get much of a look-in. His best known play, A Month…
Was Operation Thunderbolt the most daring mission in history?
Operation Thunderbolt was, Saul David contends in this gripping book, ‘the most audacious special forces operation in history’. In June…
Let’s read the riot act to the kleptocrats who are buying us out
I have signed an affidavit for a hearing in the High Court stating that Janan Harb was, to my knowledge,…
Why I still have a deep attachment to the BBC
After I failed my O-levels and decided to leave school, my father suggested I go to Israel to work on…
How Ed Miliband lost the Jewish vote
Labour’s leader would be the first Jewish prime minister since Disraeli – so how has he alienated so many Jewish voters?
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