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: Obama's interests are not always ours
If he has preferences it is for a Cold War bilateralism with Russia and China
Recently by Adrian Hamilton
Adrian Hamilton: Democracy is not an end in itself
Thursday, 8 April 2010
The West's desire to show progress makes it reluctant to call a dud election a sham
Adrian Hamilton: We're getting everything from this election but radicalism
Thursday, 1 April 2010
The tighter the race, the less open the discussion of policy alternatives
Adrian Hamilton: Israel's interests are not the same as ours on Palestine
Thursday, 25 March 2010
Its greatest fear in its relationship with the West is marginalisation
Adrian Hamilton: People vote for competence not policy
Friday, 19 March 2010
In a peculiarly British way, the result usually reflects the consensus in the country
Adrian Hamilton: The Janus face of recession politics
Thursday, 11 March 2010
There is a deep divide in the way voters see it and the way politicians talk about it
Adrian Hamilton: Greece is right – Britain and Europe are letting it down
Thursday, 4 March 2010
The UK knows well what markets can do and how to confront them
Can we halt our slide to the margins?
Friday, 26 February 2010
Adrian Hamilton: Economically hamstrung, shorn of confidence, and increasingly irrelevant on the world stage. We face hard choices if we are to recover our status.
Adrian Hamilton: Spiritual leader deserves full honour
Friday, 19 February 2010
If President Obama intended to make a firm gesture by meeting the exiled Dalai Lama yesterday, it has to be said that it was a very tentative one.
Torture demeans torturer as well as victim
Thursday, 18 February 2010
Adrian Hamilton: The policy of rendition was developed, and condoned by Britain, to get round law
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Columnist Comments
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I had always imagined that it was people who raped children, not organisations.
• Steve Richards: Something had to give – and it has
Brown now knows that all the cards are up in the air once more
• Terence Blacker: Pause to reconsider our lives
Emitting a mighty belch, nature has grounded us - in the form of a volcano
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