UK Politics Corbyn’s anti-imperialism has made him a target of the British military The video that emerged this week of British soldiers in Afghanistan using a picture of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn for target practice cannot be divorced from our toxic… By David Wearing
The Staggers The “lunatic“ incident showed us the real Owen Smith: and it ain’t pretty By David Wearing
After Egypt and Syria, there’s never been a worse time to host an arms fair Next week London hosts the world’s largest arms fair, the "Defence Security Equipment International" (DSEi) exhibition, organised with the… By David Wearing
The crackdown in Bahrain is an embarrassment for David Cameron After David Cameron's recent meeting with King Hamad at Downing Street, the Bahrain authorities began a punitive clampdown on… By David Wearing
In Bahrain, British diplomacy is an insult to real democrats Without taking definite steps to promote democracy in Bahrain, Britain will, to all intents and purposes, have sided with… By David Wearing
Mitt Romney’s Palin-esque ignorance of Middle East politics Suggests that Palestinians are the aggressors and Israel is a state desiring no more than its own security. By David Wearing
Pragmatism will rule President Morsi’s new foreign policy in Egypt The current threat to western power is not from the Muslim Brotherhood but from ongoing revolutionary dynamics in Egypt. By David Wearing