Andrew Cockburn

Will we stop Saudi Arabia developing a nuclear weapon?

15 July 2025 9:30 pm

Though clearly resolved to declare victory over Iran’s nuclear program and move on, Donald Trump has been beset this summer…

A blunt instrument

25 June 2022 9:00 am

Economic sanctions have never worked

Can Joe Biden channel John F. Kennedy over Ukraine?

17 February 2022 8:46 pm

​In a submission for the hotly contested prize for fatuous belligerence over Ukraine, Ben Wallace, UK secretary of state for…

Near missiles

4 December 2021 9:00 am

The Pentagon’s overreaction to China’s new weapon tests

How the Pentagon got rich from Afghanistan

20 July 2021 9:51 am

The departure of American troops from Afghanistan is being lamented (or hailed — see the Chinese press, passim) as a…

Putin’s secret weapon? The F-35

16 June 2021 8:24 am

This week’s Nato summit communiqué was predictably replete with bombast about the ever growing threat of Russian aggression — along…

Democrat blues: the leadership fears and loathes the grassroots

20 February 2020 4:54 am

This article is in The Spectator’s March 2020 US edition. Subscribe here. ‘Today, I’m reflecting on the three years we’ve spent…

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Joe Biden’s fractious relationship with the truth

21 September 2019 11:01 pm

This article is in The Spectator’s inaugural US edition. Subscribe here to get yours. ‘He ran twice for president and lost when he…