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Technology often disappoints because it promises to make easy things that have to be hard

The victims of the regime in the country are fighting for democracy, for human rights and for the ability to feed their children

It’s the old game of escalate-and-conciliate or cheat-and-repeat that had started in 1994

The US will need to mend fences with its European partners to pursue a coordinated diplomatic approach

Tehran didn’t honour its end of the bargain and neither need the United States now

The world’s poorest countries deserve better than to be the petri dish for western experts who know too little and a field of fantasy for western progressives who dream too much

It is desperate for reform — and desperate not to be reformed. And more than anything else, it needs to decide what should be the role of the state

There were two electoral disasters, one near-disaster, and one pleasant surprise but none went according to script