Opinion
Syria: What should the UK do now?
If politicians want to see a stable and secure Syria, they should use the UK’s levers and influence to give Syrians the best chance of building it.
Bashar al-Assad
Raqqa: to appease Iran, Obama gives Assad’s air force a free pass for slaughter
The term appeasement is often overused, but that's what Obama’s free pass to Assad’s air force in exchange for a hoped-for nuclear deal with Iran is.
Assad kills journalists too – the West must not work with his regime
Assad is not an ally, he is a man whose stubborn determination to preserve his dictatorship has killed hundreds of thousands.
Syria air strikes: Bashar al-Assad is not the ‘lesser evil’, but a major part of the problem
A Western alliance with Assad would be based on two colossal misunderstandings of the situation in Syria.
The British government has completely failed Syria’s refugees
The scale of the tragedy requires a much greater response than the callous and disinterested one shown by the government.
Peter Oborne’s latest Syria dispatch is a disgrace
Peter Oborne's latest dispatch reads like George Bernard Shaw on Stalin's Russia.