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Johnson’s approach is more insidious than Trump’s demagoguery

Johnson’s approach is more insidious than Trump’s demagoguery

20 Jul 2019

Is the rise of Boris Johnson to be the next prime minister the product of a soft coup? Does Donald Trump’s racist demonisation of four non-white congress members prove him...

More people die on EU borders than other borders in the world

More people die on EU borders than other borders in the world

29 Jun 2019

Four years ago, I was standing by the grave of Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old child who drowned when the rubber boat carrying him and his Syrian Kurdish family from Turkey...

May’s resignation will do nothing to arrest Britain’s decline

May’s resignation will do nothing to arrest Britain’s decline

25 May 2019

There is a story about an enthusiastic American who took a phlegmatic English friend to see the Niagara Falls. “Isn’t that amazing?” exclaimed the American. “Look at that vast mass...

Leaving the EU has already crippled Britain for good

Leaving the EU has already crippled Britain for good

07 Apr 2019

Future historians will look back at Britain in the age of Brexit and seek to explain why its people reduced their power and influence in the world in the belief...

Patrick Cockburn

Patrick Cockburn

Patrick Cockburn is an award-winning Independent columnist who specialises in analysis of Iraq, Syria and wars in the Middle East. He has been with The Independent since 1990.