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World view - Lindsey Hilsum fills a vacancy in the axis of evil

  • 07 March 2005

There is a vacancy in the axis of evil, and the real threat to Syria therefore comes, not from Lebanon's cedar revolutionaries, but from Jerusalem and Washington

World view - Michela Wrong asks a murderous question

  • 28 February 2005

Told your country was in danger, and your sister-in-law was one of its enemies, could you kill her and her children? That was roughly the question that faced Rwanda's Hutus

World view - Lindsey Hilsum warns that old wars can bite back

  • 21 February 2005

The murders in Lebanon and Somalia show that wars we thought we could forget are still simmering away. Expect trouble in Kosovo before long

World view - Michela Wrong overhears diaspora gossip

  • 14 February 2005

In a diaspora, there is no such thing as privacy. Everyone knows everyone else's business, whose father worked as a collaborator, whose uncle committed adultery

World view - Lindsey Hilsum

  • 07 February 2005

I feared that I had become a stooge. Embedded with the British forces, I came to Basra to report on one election, but my stories may be used in the campaign for another

World view - Michela Wrong stands up on her pen in Nairobi

  • 31 January 2005

We may have forgotten colonialism but, as the newspapers show, Kenyans believe Britain is still trying to control them - by, for example, selling them sub-standard school textbooks

World view - Lindsey Hilsum glimpses the Next World Order

  • 24 January 2005
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The 21st century, say US analysts, will not be American. It will belong to China and India, and it may bring a cyberspace caliphate that commands Muslim loyalty across the world

World view - Michela Wrong breaks our African tribal taboo

  • 17 January 2005

Writing about Africa without mentioning the role of tribalism and witchcraft is like writing about British fox-hunting without mentioning class

World view - Lindsey Hilsum wonders what it takes to get asylum

  • 10 January 2005

Claudia faces prison and possible torture if she returns home to a former Soviet state, and her two daughters could be raped. So why does the Home Office refuse her asylum?

World view - Lindsey Hilsum's guide to TV's foreign coverage

  • 13 December 2004

How valuable is a report about Fallujah by a correspondent who's sitting in a studio in London? To find out, read this guide to international news on TV

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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