Religious fundamentalists could hold the key to Middle East peace
Israel's ultra-orthodox parties – so long deemed part of the hawkish right – might just unlock the two-state solution
Published by: The Guardian
Monthly Archives: April 2013
Plan could end in blame game
The long-ago BBC Jerusalem correspondent, Michael Elkins, once lamented that too many war reporters had not served a journalistic apprenticeship by working on a local newspaper. How, he asked, could they understand the grief of a woman in Beirut devast...
Published by: The Jewish Chronicle
Notes on a bombing: five thoughts about Boston
The last 24 hours have felt like an extended episode of Homeland. Amid all the uncertainty, what are we to make of it?
Published by: The Guardian
Margaret Thatcher’s funeral: the key pieces of commentary
Eleven Guardian contributors give their verdicts on the ceremonial funeral at St Paul's CathedralMichael WhiteJonathan FreedlandGiles FraserMartin KettleMichael BillingtonSam WollastonJess Cartner-MorleyNick HopkinsCatherine BennettRhiannon Lucy Cossle...
Published by: The Guardian
Margaret Thatcher’s funeral: ‘Lying here, she is one of us’
For all the grandeur, they claimed a simple purpose. They had come, they said, not to bury a political figure or an "-ism", but a woman of flesh and blood, a mortal who was "one of us". And yet there were moments when it seemed they had come to bury an entire era, to conclude at last that dizzying, turbulent decade where she reigned supreme. The ceremony that hushed central London on Wednesday morning was a farewell to Margaret Thatcher but also to the 1980s.
Published by: The Guardian
Margaret Thatcher’s funeral: ‘Lying here, she is one of us’
The ceremony that hushed central London was a farewell to Margaret Thatcher – and also to the conflicted 1980s
Published by: The Guardian
A funeral designed to elevate Margaret Thatcher above politics
The aim was to usher Thatcher into that tiny pantheon of figures deemed fit to stand alongside the monarchy in national esteem
Published by: The Guardian
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This lovefest for Margaret Thatcher spells trouble for David Cameron
The prime minister is damned if he's too much like her, and damned if he's not enough. Meanwhile Labour is left unruffled
Published by: The Guardian
Margaret Thatcher debate mixes discord amid the tributes
As parliament pays respects, revelations emerge that Speaker originally rejected recall of MPs and Foreign Office caused anger by issuing funeral dress code
Published by: The Guardian