Simon Tisdall
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- 8
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- Sep 13, 2026
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- Jul 5, 2026
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Putin would rather keep killing than admit heâs lost. As a winter of misery looms in Ukraine, Nato must step in | Simon Tisdall (opens the original)
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The Russian leader is ploughing on with his forever war â and each day is a crime against humanity. Western democracies cannot simply sit on their hands Ukraineâs people face a winter from hell. Thwarted on the battlefield, Russia is stepping up systematic, daily attacks on civilians, their homes, schools, hospitals, workplaces, and the vital infrastructure that sustains human life. Wave after wave of terrifying daytime ballistic missile and jet-drone strikes on Kyiv and other cities are des
The world is being driven to the brink by thugs and dictators, but there is a route to a brighter future | Simon Tisdall (opens the original)
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It’s no surprise some analysts say we are already in the midst of the third world war, but ordinary people have more power than we think Don’t look up! The world is a mess. The sky could fall in any day. Unending wars, expanding humanitarian crises, rising authoritarianism, dysfunctional democracies, rampant racial and religious extremism, and unchecked lawlessness cast a dark cloud as the west’s new political year begins. Set all that against a backdrop of staggering global economic inequality,
Marco Rubio has unique power to promote peace, but he hasnât. He is almost as bad for the world as Trump | Simon Tisdall (opens the original)
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As chief US diplomat, Rubio could do great good. His pandering and neglect are a disgrace we shouldnât ignore Viewed from the state department in Washington DC, the world is on fire â but record heatwaves are not to blame. The unresolved Iran war has badly burned Donald Trump. His military campaign conclusively failed, energy and food prices are still rising, and a Republican rout in Novemberâs midterm elections looms. Humiliatingly, Israel this week flatly rejected his latest Gaza peace p
President Xi never wastes a good crisis. As Iran, Ukraine and Palestine distract the world, he tightens his grip | Simon Tisdall (opens the original)
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Ever the strategist, the Chinese leader is taking the offensive, both abroad and at home. That’s bad news for global order, and minorities in his country Imagine what would happen if a British prime minister in London told the Scots they could not have their own parliament, national football team or fly the saltire. Or if the Welsh were told their language and poetry were banned and must no longer be taught in schools. The ensuing uproar would probably destroy the United Kingdom. Yet that’s exac
From the strait of Hormuz to the North Sea, a global maritime war rages around us â and more than the price of oil is at stake | Simon Tisdall (opens the original)
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The collapse of the rules-based order is not confined to the land: weâre imperilled as centuries of maritime cooperation sink beneath the waves The US military campaign to protect merchant shipping from Iranian attacks by asserting direct maritime control in the strait of Hormuz is not an idea unique to Donald Trumpâs administration. Almost exactly 200 years ago, in the period 1825-27, a powerful US naval squadron led by Commodore John Rodgers was sent to the Mediterranean to defend American
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