INSANE: 5 | Vintage Vibes

Putin, Xi, Trump… The barbarians are at the gate but Europe’s leaders are too busy infighting to notice

Amid threats to its ‘reason for being’, the EU must stop squabbling and take a stand

The Guardian - UK · Nov 16, 2024

Contempt for human rights, trashing allies: the world’s populists are rubbing their hands with glee

After Donald Trump’s victory, brute force will prevail over geopolitics as authoritarians are appeased from Russia to Israel to China

The Guardian - UK · Nov 9, 2024

Donald Trump is a superspreader of a craziness that has split America in two

In displaying all the signs that he is off his rocker, the Republican candidate has infected millions of others

The Guardian - UK · Nov 2, 2024

Kamala Harris has a problem with men. Will misogyny cost her the election?

After a rousing start to her campaign, the Democratic candidate is flatlining in the polls, and sexism could swing the vote in Donald Trump’s favour

The Guardian - UK · Oct 20, 2024

A pause for peace is the best the world can hope for in the Middle East’s war without end

Western leaders look feeble and helpless as religious fanatics and rightwing zealots dig the region deeper into conflict

The Guardian - UK · Oct 5, 2024

Night of bombing in south Beirut – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU · Oct 5, 2024

In their inhumanity, conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine offer a shared, brutal vision of the future of war

By acting with impunity and tearing up the rulebooks, warmonger leaders are setting an alarming precedent

The Guardian - UK · Sep 28, 2024

Netanyahu’s lethal bombs will turn Lebanon into another Gaza. He must be brought down now

The Israeli leader needs forever wars to keep himself in power. Innocent lives just don’t matter, says Simon Tisdall, the foreign affairs commentator of the Observer

The Guardian - UK · Sep 24, 2024

Xi Jinping’s ‘gunboat diplomacy’ risks driving his bullied neighbours into enemy hands

Chinese aggression in the South China Sea forcing countries such as Japan to increase defences and talk up an ‘Asian Nato’

The Guardian - UK · Sep 21, 2024

The world should breathe a sigh of relief that Donald Trump wasn’t harmed in Florida

The former president’s sudden passing would create an unprecedented, certainly unpredictable and possibly anarchic political vacuum, says foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

The Guardian - UK · Sep 16, 2024