Martin Kettle
There is a longer view to take to understand how the capital city of Belgium is so often in the terrorist front line.
Updated 23 Mar, 2016 04:46pm
People who see a divine hand or the iron laws of dialectical materialism at work in human affairs bridle at the...
Published 27 Dec, 2013 08:25am
LONDON: All politicians and observers of politics agree on one thing. A reputation for economic competence matters....
Updated 16 Aug, 2013 07:27am
LONDON: One of the most famous things ever said about Hugo Chavez, who died on Tuesday, was written by the Novel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez after accompanying him on flight from Havana to Caracas in 1999, just before Chavez took office as Venezuela’s
Published 07 Mar, 2013 08:13pm
No ascent to the prime ministership was more carefully planned and plotted for so long than that of Gordon Brown in...
Published 07 Apr, 2010 12:00am
As all the world knows, Joseph Kennedy had four sons. The first, Joseph Jr, was killed in action at 29 in 1944. The...
Published 13 Oct, 2009 12:00am
LONDON To come across the British naturalist and broadcaster David Attenborough in the audience for The Sixteen`s...
Published 15 Aug, 2009 12:00am
THE British prime minister, Gordon Brown, is facing an escalating crisis of confidence inside the parliamentary...
Published 30 May, 2009 12:00am
IN these giddy times not a day passes without some spectacular repudiation of the Republican past by the Obama...
Published 31 Jan, 2009 12:00am
THE British premier Gordon Brown would prefer Europe not to exist. If he had his way, politics would be played out ...
Published 14 Dec, 2008 12:00am
THERE is a remarkable racial story at the heart of Barack Obama`s historic election. But it may not be quite the one...
Published 10 Nov, 2008 12:00am
PORTLAND (Oregon) America`s 2008 election has at last come down to a national conversation about Barack Obama. When...
Published 01 Nov, 2008 12:00am
LONDON Too much media coverage of the American election for you? It wasn`t always this way. Sometimes the complaints...
Published 19 Oct, 2008 12:00am
LONDON: Too much media coverage of the American election for you? It wasn’t always this way. Sometimes the ...
Published 19 Oct, 2008 12:00am
Returning to the UK this week from covering the American conventions, I was struck above all by one thing concerning...
Published 14 Sep, 2008 12:00am
Returning to the UK this week from covering the American conventions, I was struck above all by one thing concerning...
Published 14 Sep, 2008 12:00am
LONDON: Maybe it hardly bears thinking about the morning of November 5 if Barack Obama has lost to John McCain the...
Published 31 Aug, 2008 12:00am
LONDON Maybe it hardly bears thinking about the morning of November 5 if Barack Obama has lost to John McCain the...
Published 31 Aug, 2008 12:00am
LONDON: For plenty of people, Hillary Clinton’s cringingly false boast in March that she had dodged the bullets at...
Published 03 Jun, 2008 12:00am
LONDON It is hard for western politicians not to sound interchangeable in the shadow of an event like the killing of...
Published 01 Jan, 2008 12:00am
