MICHAEL BURLEIGH: Stalin's gulags and his Left wing British apologists
In Hampstead parlours, intellectual apologists for Stalin like Ralph Miliband’s great friend Eric Hobsbawm loved talking in abstractions as millions died in horror.
View ArticleWhy the old foe Iran is suddenly a crucial ally, by MICHAEL BURLEIGH
David Cameron is now making entreaties to the enemy and planning to meet Iranian leader Hassan Rouhani at the UN General Assembly in New York this week.
View ArticlePrejudice, hatred and why Turkey won't do anything about the barbarians on...
MICHAEL BURLEIGH looks at why Turkey views the prospect of IS’s dreaded black banner fluttering over a town near its border with such apparent equanimity.
View ArticleWas Charlie Hebdo massacre Al-Qaeda's bid to re-establish itself after being...
The manner of yesterday's terrorist attack suggests that Al Qaeda feels eclipsed by ISIS and was determined to put itself back in the international spotlight with an act of mass murder.
View ArticleSlaughter on the shores of the Med... so close to resorts loved by Britons
They were marched along the pristine sands of the beach to the scene of their murder, writes MICHAEL BURLEIGH.
View ArticleWe must reclaim Europe's borders, by MICHAEL BURLEIGH
The deaths of up to 1,000 EU-bound migrants at the weekend has focused minds on the appalling human tragedy unfolding in the Mediterranean, writes MICHAEL BURLEIGH.
View ArticleCan ANYONE stop ISIS tearing the Middle East apart?
The U.S has conducted 20 air strikes around Ramadi in the past few days, But it is clear their £430m F-22 Raptor fighters do not have the capability to stop the jihadis' advance, writes MICHAEL...
View ArticleMICHAEL BURLEIGH: It's when, not if, the extremists hit Britain
Ramadan is a time of fasting and reflection for Muslims everywhere. It also seems to be the time when terrorist groups strike, as they did in France, Kuwait and Tunisia yesterday.
View ArticleMigrants could be biggest threat to Europe since the war, writes MICHAEL...
Yesterday, we revealed the Mediterranean boat crisis has now reached Britain, with police figures showing a 200 per cent increase in the number of migrants making it to our shores over the last year.
View ArticleIt's right to to use these spies on the sky says MICHAEL BURLEIGH
By all accounts the drone strike in Syria on the two British jihadis Reyaad Khan and Ruhul Amin – as well as a third person in their vehicle – was ruthlessly clinical writes MICHAEL BURLEIGH.
View ArticleWhy Cameron's army of Syrian moderates to defeat ISIS is a deadly fantasy
When David Cameron stands up in the Commons today and urges his fellow MPs to vote to bomb Syria, he will do so with deep conviction. There are few more momentous decisions, writes MICHAEL BURLEIGH.
View ArticleA stark warning to Britain as ISIS orders 'volcanoes of terror'
Britain must act at home as well as abroad to take on the threat of ISIS, starting with a ban on fighters from Syria returning to this country.
View ArticleSaudi Arabia's decision to execute 47 prisoners examined by MICHAEL BURLEIGH
Barely has the New Year started than Saudi Arabia has confirmed its reputation for barbarity. This weekend, at 12 separate prisons, 47 convicts were executed by beheading or firing squad.
View ArticleMICHAEL BURLEIGH: 'Will the ambitions of Vladimir Putin and Recep Erdogan...
Syria is now the battleground for a proxy war between two regional powers, Russia or Turkey, and it is an international conflict which has the potential to become a Third World War.
View ArticleThe EU’s migrant €6bn deal with Turkey’s despot is terrifying writes MICHAEL...
Fifty-six thousand migrants have arrived in Greece so far this year, courtesy of Turkish smugglers, and corrupt police who collude with them, writes MICHAEL BURLEIGH.
View ArticleMICHAEL BURLEIGH: I despise Tony Blair's grubby attempt to spin away Chilcot...
Chilcot will be a defining moment in our recent history, and not just because 179 British service personnel and thousands of Iraqis were killed in the ensuing anarchy.
View ArticleMass culling of the professional classes in Turkey is reminiscent of...
In the days since the attempted coup against his Islamist regime last Friday, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has lost no time in ruthlessly cracking down on his enemies.
View ArticleMICHAEL BURLEIGH says it is nonsense that Britain holds some responsibility...
The violent endgame in Aleppo is 'dreadful', but Britain being responsible for 'not intervening three years ago' is 'nonsense', writes MICHAEL BURLEIGH.
View ArticlePutin's taking over Libya in order to point a new weapon at the West, writes...
So bloody and extensive is President Putin’s record of aggression, not least in Syria and Ukraine, that an incursion into the empty deserts of North Africa might hardly seem worth noting.
View ArticleWill Donald Trump unleash hell on Iran? Oil prices soaring, threats of...
The events in the obscure Saudi oil town of Abqaiq rocked world oil prices and dramatically raised the stakes in the ongoing tensions between the US and Iran.
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