March 26, 2009
Will the real Bill Clinton stand up in Peter Morgan's new film?
Peter Morgan is acclaimed for getting to the heart of real-life politicos in his scripts. But, in his new film about Clinton/Blair, what will he decide is the essential Bill Clinton?
Published in the Guardian's film blog
End this brutalised occupation
Palestinian freedom also means freedom for Israelis — from the slide into moral degradation
Published in the Jewish Chronicle
March 25, 2009
Bibi has done for Labour
By joining Netanyahu's coalition, Ehud Barak and his party colleagues are shown to be unprincipled mercenaries and hacks
Published on the Guardian's website
Call it 9/15 - the day the crucial divide in the post-Blair/Brown era took shape
The future of the Labour party rests on conflicting readings of the economic calamity, and a reckoning with what went wrong
Published in the Guardian
March 18, 2009
Scrap ID cards
And spend the money on a 'Manhattan Project' to develop the world's greenest car
Published on the Guardian's website
Discard the mythology of 'the Israel Lobby', the reality is bad enough
They are not all-powerful, but Israel's advocates in the US do play hardball - often hurting the cause they are meant to serve
Published in the Guardian
March 13, 2009
The lost kingdom of King Arthur
Scargill at full cry is still a force of nature, but the industrial working-class solidarity he invokes belongs to a bygone era
Published on the Guardian's website
March 11, 2009
After a flurry of early activity, the Obama doctrine is taking shape
We're only 50 days in, but it's not too soon to discern a refreshing thread of logic in the president's foreign policy
Published in the Guardian