Diana Magnay

Europe has had no choice but to laser its focus on strategic autonomy

It’s been four years since the Russian President launched the war in Ukraine and he hasn’t stepped back from his original goals

Mass protest is a long way from revolution. The people of Iran have been here before. In 2009, over perceived electoral fraud; in 2019, over fuel prices; in 2022, over the abuses of the morality police. The authorities have honed their playbook,…

The Russian President believes he can manipulate US leader into supporting his maximalist demands

Deterrence is not fool-proof

The Russian president is not interested in bringing this to an end

The brutality of Russia's drone assaults on Ukraine's towns and cities shows no let up. "Savage strikes, a deliberate targeted terror" is how the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described the latest overnight bombardment. Some 595 attack…

Israel's prime minister added more detail to his deeply controversial plans for military escalation in Gaza at a news conference with foreign media yesterday - despite the condemnation of the UN Security Council, which met in an emergency session and…

The north used to be the breadbasket of the Gaza Strip. Strawberry fields in Beit Lahia, olive and citrus groves, wheat fields, and the agricultural university in Beit Hanoun. It seems impossible even to imagine that now. Follow Gaza latest We flew…

Escalating Israel's military operation in Gaza to the max - which is reportedly what Israel's prime minister is leaning towards - will stretch an already exhausted army. No wonder Eyal Zamir, Israel's chief of staff, is reportedly reluctant to go…

Few one-time golden boys manage to retain their lustre long into political office. Barack Obama just about held on to his, leaving the US presidency with his approval rating high despite his party's 2016 loss to Donald Trump. But Emmanuel Macron is…

President Biden had seemed so adamant. He would leave the Justice Department to make its own decisions. Hunter Biden would not be granted clemency for gun and tax convictions just because he was the president's son. But that was before he dropped out…

The 32-year-old Wall Street Journal reporter is the first foreign journalist to be detained on espionage charges since the Cold War and if found guilty he could face up to 20 years in jail. There has been no hint of his case coming to trial. It is…

Vladimir Putin's power to wage an "eternal war" against the West - and in Ukraine - has been strengthened by his sham election win. He will continue to tell his people Russia is one big happy family - but those who do speak out say "we are poorer and…

In his annual address the Russian president wasted no time pulling his punches, with fresh nuclear sabre-rattling and his by-now hackneyed critique of the "so-called West" coming pretty much straight off the top. In 2018, when Vladimir Putin…

Alexei Navalny lived and died fighting against Vladimir Putin's regime and the corruption at its heart. Barred in 2018 from running in elections, he remained Mr Putin's most powerful political opponent. He was the one man capable of bringing tens of…

When French President Emmanuel Macron called for a ceasefire last Friday, he said he was hoping the US and UK would follow suit. So far, they have not. There has been a marked shift in rhetoric in most Western capitals vis-a-vis how Israel is…

Sanctions and an Orwellian fear of speaking out have ripped up the future Russians could have had.