The big mistake apparently about to be made by US President Donald Trump in undoing the nuclear agreement reached with Iran during President Barack Obama’s term is not just that he intends to go backwards, but that he does not intend to go forwards.

Everyone has their favourite sounds — a ball on a cricket bat on a summer afternoon, birds singing, waves breaking on the beach, the coffee pot on the stove, children playing scoobydoo.Mine are the quiet sounds of the English Lake District poet William Wordsworth: “A flock of she

Does President Donald Trump (aka Fire and Fury) know what a nuclear war would be like?

It’s not that many years ago that Warren Christopher, the US secretary of state, commenting on the outbreak of separatist ethnic strife in the 1990s in countries such as Somalia, Zaire, Rwanda, East Timor and ex-Yugoslavia, asked. “Where will it end?

A few recent words from Jack Matlock who was US ambassador to Moscow under presidents Reagan and Bush senior: “The Ukraine crisis is a product, in large part, of the policy of indefinite expansion of NATO to the east.

The most peaceful countries in the world are Iceland, Portugal, Austria, New Zealand and Denmark, according to the new Global Peace Index, in a new 136-page report, published by the Institute for Economics and Peace in Sydney, Australia.The most violent are Afghanistan, Iraq, Syr

China, since the days in 1793 and the mission of Earl Macartney, emissary of King George III, has kept its distance from the West, preferring to be “as self-contained as a billiard ball”, to quote the great historian Alain Peyrefitte.It was Peyrefitte who argued in “The Collision

It goes back to the French revolution of 1789.

Three days ago, I was standing in Moscow in front of a statue of presidents Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev crafted by master sculptor, Alexander Bourganov.I was the only journalist invited to speak.