Adrian Hamilton
The Independent’s comment editor, Adrian Hamilton writes a weekly column largely on international affairs with particular focus on the Middle East, Iran and foreign policy issues. Before joining the paper he was deputy editor of the Observer newspaper.
Adrian Hamilton: Sanctions aren't going to bust Burma
Politicians like them because they make you look as if you’re ‘doing something’
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Adrian Hamilton: Why do we feel we must turn Chekhov into Noel Coward?
Thursday, 6 August 2009
There's a problem in 'versions' rather than translations of foreign plays
Miliband's failure as Foreign Secretary
Thursday, 30 July 2009
Adrian Hamilton: Little wonder that foreign leaders see him as jejune while officals despair of him
Adrian Hamilton: The bitter politics of debt reduction
Thursday, 23 July 2009
In hard times there is virtue in the politician who proposes harsh measures
Adrian Hamilton: If terror is the problem, we won't solve it in Afghanistan
Thursday, 16 July 2009
Justification for the war on anti-terror grounds is largely specious
Adrian Hamilton: Why China's President left the G8
Thursday, 9 July 2009
The local Uighurs see their identity being swamped by Han Chinese, as in Tibet
Adrian Hamilton: How can Iranians mend their broken Islamic Republic?
Thursday, 2 July 2009
Ahmadinejad may have been declared the victor, but he lacks legitimacy
Adrian Hamilton: Give me excess of it? No thanks
Thursday, 25 June 2009
How many Hamlets can you see before pleasure turns to indigestion?
Adrian Hamilton: We can support the protests – but we must not interfere
Thursday, 18 June 2009
If Iwere to offer my advice, it would be to prepare for a full recount in Iran
Adrian Hamilton: Power in Iran - a labyrinthine system
Wednesday, 17 June 2009
The regime in Iran is now desperately – and so far uncertainly – playing for time while it tries to work out just what is happening in the country and the forces that are now engulfing it. The Council of Guardians has agreed to a recount of the disputed results. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was seen off for the day to a summit in Russia. Talks have been opened up with the main opposition leaders. The foreign press has been effectively confined to barracks. The authorities have warned against demonstrations but appear to have held back from trying to suppress them by force.
Adrian Hamilton: This exercise won't even ask the hard questions
Tuesday, 16 June 2009
The invasion of Iraq, as Tony Blair now accepts in private, is the great cloud that lours over his premiership and the New Labour Government, despite every effort to push it into the margins of history. It was the most divisive issue of a generation, and perhaps more, which could find no resolution either in the regimented debates of Parliament or two successive inquiries, by Lord Hutton into the death of Dr David Kelly and by Lord Butler into the use of intelligence.
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