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His cult-like status is likely to hand him victory in the coming elections, but to democracy’s costSuddenly, everyone loves India. But it’s an affair, not a marriage. Whether it lasts depends on the consequences of this week’s watershed election. At st…
Read MoreFrom Russia to South Africa, India to the US, the coming year’s contests could embolden dictators or revitalise democraciesWho says democracy is dying? A record-breaking 40-plus countries, representing more than 40% of the world’s population and an out…
Read MoreChina’s paramount leader, like his Russian counterpart, is making a fine mess of his country’s economy and world standingIt must be tough, being a dictator, when your diktats are ignored, thwarted and scorned. Vladimir Putin is a sad case in point. He …
Read MoreSince the coup in 2021 the carnage has been unceasing, meanwhile Russia and China continue to send weaponsIn the targets of the junta: life and war inside rebel-held MyanmarThe problem is not that governments around the world are unaware of what is hap…
Read MoreChina’s leader is gathering autocratic regimes to his banner, Europe and the US are divided over how to respond, and the French president just lobbed a grenade onto the field of international diplomacyIt is perhaps no surprise that Emmanuel Macron is i…
Read MorePutin thought he could get away with his invasion. Xi Jinping must be deterred from making a similarly fatal miscalculationIt is generally acknowledged that a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, drawing in the US and possibly Japan, Australia and Britain, coul…
Read MoreAmerica’s record at keeping global order is deeply flawed, but the only winners from its drift towards isolationism will be Xi Jinping and Vladimir PutinAmerican global leadership took a serious kicking last week. Politicians and pundits on both sides …
Read MoreBeijing is following Vladimir Putin’s aggressive playbook. The US can counter the march of the autocrats, but only if it stops feeding their paranoiaIs there a school for autocrats? As if by rote, authoritarian leaders around the world trot out remarka…
Read MoreFrom brutal murders and military parades to jailed opponents, Min Aung Hlaing is true to the tyrant’s playbook. The worldwide fight for democracy has to be fought here Continue reading…
Read MoreRussian forces are in retreat yet Nato still holds back for fear of what a humiliated Kremlin might do. But now is precisely the time to step up the pressureThere has been much excited talk of a “turning point” following Ukraine’s rapid military advanc…
Read MoreFrom Russia’s threat of nuclear weapons to the patriotic courage of Volodymyr Zelenskiy, an A to Z of how the world has changedRussia-Ukraine war: latest newsRussia’s invasion of Ukraine has been described by politicians and commentators as a watershed…
Read MoreTub-thumping talk of all-out war in Ukraine seems overblown but the White House knows the fledgling Sino-Russian axis is a real threat, in Taiwan and elsewhereIf, as seems increasingly probable, Russia decides not to launch an all-out invasion of Ukrai…
Read MoreJoe Biden’s ‘waffle-fest’ summit shows the international community is toothless when faced with a murderous junta boss Promoting democracy worldwide is an admirable ambition, unless of course you are a bloody-minded dictator and serial human rights abu…
Read MoreOfficial cables confirm that the former foreign secretary could have foreseen the chaos of the Afghanistan withdrawal. He didn’t resign then. But he should nowDominic Raab is a clever man, but not perhaps a wise or especially honourable one. Chronic m…
Read MoreThe US has now spent $8 trillion over 20 years in its response to the attacks. But the true price has been more than financialSuccessive US administrations since 2001 have spent $8tn – that’s to say $8,000bn or $8 million million – on what George Bush,…
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