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Adrian Hamilton

Adrian Hamilton: Politics has become a sport – and Brown must show that his team can handle the pressure

Published: 11 October 2007

"Isn't it wonderful?" said a friend at the weekend. "Sport and politics providing such excitement at the same time." But, of course. Politics has become a sporting event. How else to explain a public appetite that veers from a 10 per cent majority in favour of Labour to a 4 per cent majority in favour of the Conservatives within the space of a week? What else accounts for the extraordinary fervour which has gripped the players and their supporters over the last week?

Adrian Hamilton: Sanctions won't bring down Burma's government

Published: 04 October 2007

Darfur. Zimbabwe. Burma. On each occasion the world rouses itself to a passion of concern. Threats are made. Sanctions are discussed. And at the end of it, nothing very much happens at all. The killings go on in Darfur. Zimbabwe sinks ever more rapidly into the economic abyss. The Burmese army arrests the monks, re-imposes order and a silence settles internationally.

Adrian Hamilton: Let's start by admitting we were wrong in Iraq

Published: 27 September 2007

New New Labour hasn't changed its spots in one way. It still loves the overarching concept dressed up in marketing-speak. But even by old Blairite standards the new Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, hit rock-bottom in Bournemouth with the theme of "foreign policy – the second wave".

Adrian Hamilton: The eerie familiarity of these preparations for war

Published: 20 September 2007

Have we learnt nothing from the shameful and shameless run-up to the invasion of Iraq? Then, Mohammed ElBaradei, the Nobel prize-winning Egyptian head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, quietly but firmly said that as far as he and his UN agency were concerned, there was no evidence that Saddam Hussein had nuclear weapons or the materials to make them.

Adrian Hamilton: The charade of letting the generals decide

Published: 13 September 2007

You may not have noticed it from the coverage, indeed you may not have seen his name at all, but General Petraeus was in fact accompanied by Ryan Crocker, US ambassador to Iraq, in what was meant to be a joint presentation to Congress this week.

Adrian Hamilton: Bush's increasingly tenuous hold on reality

Published: 30 August 2007

One explanation for President Bush's rant against Iran this week, following on from his extraordinary speech comparing Iraq with Vietnam last week, is that the pressure is finally getting to him. US presidential history, from Woodrow Wilson to Ronald Reagan by way of F D Roosevelt is replete with presidents who on grounds of failing powers shouldn't really have been allowed to go on. Beseiged by events, cast down by the opinion polls, isolated by the loss of his closest advisers, it would not be surprising if this particular US President was now losing it.

Adrian Hamilton: The retreat from Iraq: another saga of dishonest leadership and grisly lies

Published: 23 August 2007

Britain and the US marched into Iraq ignorant of the conditions and dishonest with their motives. They are now preparing to march out much wiser about the conditions but even more deceitful to the public as to what they are up to.

Adrian Hamilton: We demand cheap toys and electronics, then blame the Chinese for delivering them

Published: 16 August 2007

China's response to the scandals so far has been to lop off a few heads in public

Adrian Hamilton: The sordid truth: we cut and ran in India

Published: 09 August 2007

Mountbatten rushed into partition 10 months early with barely a thought for the consequences

Adrian Hamilton: Why Brown should follow his instincts

Published: 02 August 2007

There is a lot to be said for a concentration on economics in foreign policy

Adrian Hamilton: A new foreign policy should start with Iran

Published: 26 July 2007

Isolate a country and you increase the paranoia and power of its ruling government

Adrian Hamilton: The growing threat of new nationalism

Published: 19 July 2007

While the world is globalising economically, politically it is retreating to the 19th century

Adrian Hamilton: How we can help Washington to leave Iraq

Published: 12 July 2007

We can't, having torn Iraq apart, just walk away as if it were no longer our responsibility

Adrian Hamilton: The wrong man for the wrong job

Published: 28 June 2007

Even if Tony Blair had no 'form' in the Middle East, he'd still be wrong for this post

Adrian Hamilton: Don't be deceived by Blair and his apologists

Published: 21 June 2007

It was not the post-invasion plan that was to blame so much as the decision to invade in the first place

Adrian Hamilton: The voters should decide any new Euro-treaty

Published: 14 June 2007

If Brown won the referendum, he'd put himself on the international map as a world leader

Adrian Hamilton: A mini-treaty won't solve Europe's problems

Published: 24 May 2007

On the question of the European summit, it suits Gordon Brown to wait in the wings

Adrian Hamilton: The ties that bind this new generation of leaders

Published: 17 May 2007

Sarkozy, Brown and Pope Benedict have spent their life working with a single aim in mind

Adrian Hamilton: We can learn from Stormont. So why don't we?

Published: 10 May 2007

In Palestine and Lebanon, we consistently refuse to recognise the 'men of violence'

Adrian Hamilton: A desperate attempt to rewrite history

Published: 03 May 2007

Geoff Hoon claims he and Tony Blair strongly advised the US against the two worst mistakes in Iraq

Adrian Hamilton: When wearing the veil is a progressive act

Published: 26 April 2007

Over the past four, years, Erdogan's Islamist party has revolutionised Turkey's economy

Adrian Hamilton: The questions Brown should be asking Bush

Published: 19 April 2007

He can at least ask them in a way in which Blair is far too compromised to manage

Adrian Hamilton: A symbol of man's humanity to man

Published: 13 April 2007

After decades of neglect (contempt, even), portraiture is at last making something of a come-back on the exhibition trail. Hard on the heels of Holbein at the Tate has been the impressive, although somewhat unimaginative, show of late 18th and early 19th-century portraiture just finishing at the Royal Academy, and before that there was the excellent show of self-portraits at the National Portrait Gallery last year,

Adrian Hamilton: Don't blame Des, he's only in charge

Published: 12 April 2007

It's the reverse of Nuremberg. I was only following the orders of my subordinates

Adrian Hamilton: Iran has won this round on points. Is it a sign of a new pragmatism towards the West?

Published: 05 April 2007

British ministers sounding off about how evil the regime is will sound more hollow after this
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