Alastair Crooke

By Alastair Crooke The 'weakness' of Europe — and also that of the US — in the Middle East is not essentially one of waning power and influence. Although...

It was in 2003 that I realised something fundamental had changed. The door to the room in which I was sitting flew open. In stalked a figure still dressed...

Poor ol' Melanie Phillips. In today's Guardian, the Conservative Party chair Sayeeda Warsi goes on the offensive: "I don't read her, actually. I call her Mad Mel," Lady Warsi...

By Alastair Crooke A 'peace process' that, from its inception, took Israel's self-definition of its own security needs as the sole determinate of the walls within which any solution...