Politics & Conflict

The Sober President

Michael Binyon on a biography of Russia's strong man

Brian Winston on anti-semitism

"It is a source of great comic consolation to Jews to recognise their paranoia and make light of it." Howard Jacobson on anti-Semitism

Edwin Morgan on the capture of Saddam

Michael Binyon weighs up the votes

Simon Hoggart says politics must be personal

Stuart Sim argues we must fight fire with reason

Tom Baldwin sees some queer goings on behind closed doors

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

Michael Mann, the leading historian of power, forecast the failure of the American adventure in Iraq. So what should happen next?