Politics & Conflict

Escape from Fallujah

Escape from Fallujah

Jo Wilding is in Iraq as part of a humanitarian effort working with traumatised children. She ended up escorting ambulances to hospitals in the besieged town of Fallujah. Here she…

Europe’s Malcolm X

Europe’s Malcolm X

Dyab Abou Jahjah is thirty–two years old. He was born in Lebanon, which he left at the age of nineteen for ‘asylum’ in Belgium, even though he now happily admits…

Back to the USSR?

Back to the USSR?

In the wake of Russia's recent, widely criticised elections, Michael Binyon asks whether Putin is taking his country back to a Soviet past

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