Politics
Isreali soldiers on board the Gaza flotilla
As news came in of the mounting death toll from the Israeli storming of a humanitarian flotilla heading for Gaza, the actor and comedian David Schneider...
Julian Hall / June 3, 2010
Perhaps Lembit Opik turning from politics to comedy was not such a surprise. After all, this is the man who played cheeky boy to a Cheeky Girl and had a penchant for backing doomed leadership...
Dan Hancox / June 2, 2010
Much has been made of David and Ed Miliband’s fraternal fight for the leadership of the Labour party already, perhaps too much. As Sophie Elmhirst of the New Statesman wrote despairingly on her...
David Herman / June 1, 2010
Today's issue of the Guardian is typically biased in its coverage of the Gaza flotilla story. There is little balance. The one op-ed piece is an attack on Israel. All five letters on the letters page...
Duncan Brown / May 28, 2010
For all his talk, is Barack Obama merely perpetuating George W Bush's foreign policy? Has a softened approach to Iran yielded any benefits whatsoever for America? Was scrapping the European missile...
David Goodhart / May 26, 2010
What a month. In the newsagents you will find Prospect classified as a current affairs monthly. This month we are more current than usual—indeed, three of our main features (on the euro crisis,...
David Herman / May 25, 2010
BBC1’s Question Time has hit a rock. The traditional format (one spokesperson from each of the three big parties, plus a couple of others) doesn’t work with coalition politics.
Take last...
Jonathan Power / May 19, 2010
Hamas is causing unforeseen problems
Too many Israelis don’t want a settlement with the Palestinians.
Ten years ago, when prime minister Ehud Barak negotiated face to face with Yasser Arafat...
Simon T Kaye / May 18, 2010
David Cameron has recently been much compared to Benjamin Disraeli, the Tory prime minister who warned that extension of the vote would be tantamount to letting the mob into power. Disraeli...
Tomas Hirst / May 18, 2010
Last Friday Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, addressed the Finance and Economic Development ministries calling for a “complete revision of our current obligations and a cut in...