Conrad Black

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  • Jun 11, 2026
    We seem finally to have reached the dénouement in the long, extremely one-sided, and comparatively bloodless war the United States and Israel have conducted with Iran. In one...
  • Jun 4, 2026
    The now infamous Henry Nowak tragedy in Britain, from last December, is now seen throughout the Western world as indicative of the terrible dangers of the cult of self-hate in...
  • May 28, 2026
    With the focus on the Middle East, there has been comparatively little attention paid for some months to the Ukraine War.
  • May 13, 2026
    It does not seem that the world is paying much attention to the vacuum in international relations and public policy that has been created by the sudden transformation of the United...
  • May 6, 2026
    The problems of the Western Alliance have not been caused by oversensitive hurt feelings and are not an appropriate subject for the kind of name-calling that has gone on both by and...
  • Apr 30, 2026
    All those whose psychological equilibrium is disturbed by the ability of the United States to take dramatic unilateral action without collegialising its decisions with a bunch of...
  • Apr 1, 2026
    Just before the start of the Second Gulf War in 2003, British Prime Minister Tony Blair approached me as a Conservative member of the House of Lords and asked for my and my...
  • Mar 18, 2026
    The Western European NATO allies of the United States appear to be celebrating what they mistakenly believe is the discomfort the Americans and Israelis are now encountering in the...
  • Mar 11, 2026
    It is emerging that the overwhelming US and Israeli defeat of the armed forces and repressive police of the Islamic Republic of Iran is already beginning to alter the international...
  • Mar 4, 2026
    Some readers will recall that last week I posed the question of what sort of an alliance the British government might think it had with United States after denying that country the...
  • Feb 25, 2026
    The blunderbuss British government of Keir Starmer, now wallowing in the upper teens in the polls, struggling to keep a paper-thin lead over the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats,...
  • Jan 28, 2026
    In this space last week I recounted with a mixture of sadness and amusement the farce of Greenland that had already almost reached Monty Python proportions.
  • Jan 21, 2026
     The unfolding of the Greenland controversy has already become one of the most extraordinary episodes in the entire 237-year history of the presidency of the United States. As...
  • Jan 7, 2026
    It has been disappointing but not entirely surprising to see the widespread hysteria in Europe in support of the illegitimate Maduro gangster regime in Venezuela, and the new round...