John Simpson

Articles by John Simpson

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The King and I

  • 01 November 2007

How I almost walked out on an audience with Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah

Iraq: the reckoning

  • 20 March 2006

The US and Iraqi governments insist that this isn't a civil war. If they are right, then how do you describe so much fear, destruction and death?

Diary - John Simpson

  • 25 November 2002

I saw my face on gigantic billboards. Or rather, half my face; the lower half belonged to a yellow Tweenie. They had asked for my permission, but I didn't know what a Tweenie was

The shame of the nation. John Simpson reported from Belgrade during the Nato raids on Serbia. Two years later he delivers his definitive verdict: Tony Blair was wrong. There was too much suffering

  • 26 March 2001
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A New Generation Draws The Line: Kosovo, East Timor and the standards of the West Noam Chomsky Verso, 160pp, £16 ISBN 1859847897 To Kill A Nation: the attack on Yugoslavia Michael Parenti Verso, 160pp, £16

Kosovo - We were suckered. A year after the Nato bombing began in former Yugoslavia, two new books attempt to explain exactly what happened and why the west was wrong. By John Simpson

  • 03 April 2000

Virtual War Michael Ignatieff Chatto & Windus, 249pp, £12.99 ISBN 0701169435

How to survive yuletide in Grozny

  • 20 December 1999

New Statesman Christmas - Christmas past has found John Simpsonin Ceausescu's palace during the Romanian revolution, and under a sniper's bullets in Sarajevo under siege. Here he recalls his most memorable encounters

Inside the whale

  • 27 September 1999

Devil's Advocate John Humphrys Hutchinson, 288pp, £16.99 ISBN 009180048X

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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