Foreign policy

Middle East: revolution in Iran?

January 2, 2026 2:53 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

It seems quite extraordinary that, in a world where wall-to-wall media coverage of every event is taken for granted, no-one... View Article

Politics: getting there

May 26, 2025 2:47 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

For all the acres of dross we have to suffer, just occasionally – very occasionally – the Telegraph publishes something... View Article

Foreign policy: a Tory deal

May 24, 2025 3:50 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Quick off the mark as usual, YouGov has published a poll on the Chagos Islands deal, in which respondents were... View Article

Foreign policy: an historic mess

May 23, 2025 3:36 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

But for the fact that the hard-pressed British taxpayer is being committed to paying upwards of £30 billion for the... View Article

Foreign policy: a lack of resolution

February 28, 2025 2:29 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

At least Biden had the excuse of Alzheimer’s disease – actual or incipient – to explain his lack of coherence.... View Article

Israel: nothing changes

April 8, 2024 3:46 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Yesterday marked the elapse of six months since Hamas-led Palestinians went on a murderous rampage in southern Israel, leaving 1200... View Article

Foreign affairs: war clouds in the Balkans

March 20, 2024 3:44 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Nothing ever seems to be settled permanently. A long while ago, we thought we had put the spectre of war... View Article

Ukraine: death of a nation?

February 18, 2024 2:28 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

My last piece dedicated to Ukraine was back at the end of December last year, which seems ages ago. But... View Article

Foreign affairs: G20 on the line

September 8, 2023 12:18 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

For those who think that global politics is going through one of its periodic realignments, from which a new global... View Article

Foreign policy: more BRICS in the wall

August 27, 2023 1:33 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

To Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – the original BRICS grouping, we must now add Iran, Saudi Arabia,... View Article

Immigration: misdirection

June 6, 2023 2:22 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Down from London to Dover yesterday in an RAF helicopter, prime minister Sunak had flown in for a photo-op in... View Article

Sudan: the prospects for peace

May 21, 2023 3:18 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Ukraine is back in the news, with coverage of the F-16 developments and much else, including a claim that the... View Article

Pakistan: the electoral effect

May 10, 2023 2:29 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

As if we don’t already have enough problems in this benighted country of ours, it looks very much as if... View Article

Sudan: reaching the limits

April 28, 2023 3:27 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

One of the joys (if you can call it that) of blogging is that, in order to produce the volume... View Article

Turkey: a study in impotence

February 16, 2023 3:00 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

As the death toll from the 6 February earthquakes in Turkey alone reaches 40,000 and the rescue process has been... View Article

More cultural enrichment in Leicester

September 20, 2022 5:59 pm Published by Pete North Post a Comment

Just lately I’ve been having arguments with The Times via IPSO. The Times maintains its position that I had “regularly... View Article