For those readers who want to know what was actually said in those debates yesterday here are the links to the Commons and the Lords . Wh...

We are going to send the RAF to Syria and strike ISIS territory. The House of Commons debated the issue for most of the day and voted 397 t...

We have been here before, only last time the question was about intervening in order to overthrow Assad. This time the discussion is about i...

This week-end saw a wave of protests in Russia against the war with Ukraine and some support for them in the West. I shall blog about it in ...

There is a reasonable argument that this time round Hamas has overplayed its hand. Not that we don't see the usual fanatical and usually...

... and then I turn my attention to some other work. One or two of these points I have made before but they seem to bear repetition: 1.   ...

There was this vague hope that I might be able to write about something that is not Syria today but that will have to wait. There were too m...

There are times when emotion is appropriate. I am certain that I shall feel very emotional when I attend Professor Minogue's Memorial Se...

This is going to be a rant, I am afraid. Readers who dislike rants should stop right now. And it is going to be about people who are demandi...

On the other side of the Pond the Republicans are celebrating the outcome of the first Presidential debate that left Obama (minus TOTUS) in ...

... how good a journalist Marie Colvin really was (and we really don't care about the French photographer, Remi Ochlik or the other 58 p...

... but the UN and its institutions do not change. Daily do we read of appalling crimes perpetrated by the Assad regime on Syria's peopl...

Why, readers might ask, does she not write more about the European Union? Is that not the most important issue around? Well, yes and no. The...