Rupert Cornwell
Known for his commentary on international relations and US politics, Rupert Cornwell also contributes obituaries and occasionally even a column for the sports pages.
With The Independent since its launch in 1986, he was the paper's first Moscow correspondent - covering the collapse of the Soviet Union – during which time he won two British Press Awards. Previously a foreign correspondent for the Financial Times and Reuters, he has also been a diplomatic correspondent, leader writer and columnist, and has served as Washington bureau editor. In 1983 he published God's Banker, about Roberto Calvi, the Italian banker found hanging from Blackfriars Bridge.
Rupert Cornwell: Big Brown win will not whitewash racing woe
Can glory expunge tragedy? Such is the question for American racing as it approaches the climax of its season, poised uncertainly between these twin extremes of sport and life.
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Rupert Cornwell: Out of America
Sunday, 25 May 2008
What is it with the Americans and adding up votes? This must be the most numbers-obsessed country on earth, but when it comes to counting votes, simple arithmetic can turn into quantum physics.
Rupert Cornwell: The US constitution can't let Bush go
Saturday, 24 May 2008
From the opposite side of the Atlantic we watch in amazement. The ruling Labour Party suffers one by-election defeat – a stinging one admittedly, but no more stinging than the one inflicted on George Bush's Republicans here this month in a once rock-solid Congressional district in Mississippi – and a Prime Minister who has been in office less than 11 months risks losing his head, or at least his job.
Rupert Cornwell: Out of America
Sunday, 18 May 2008
So 43 is doing his bit too. To show solidarity with the troops fighting and dying in his endless war in Iraq, and with their families, George W Bush has given up... golf. When I read that remark, in an interview with the online publication Politico last week, it seemed at first to sum up everything that was wrong with him, and with the Republican party, blindly following him into the miserable dead-end that is Bush's presidency in its final months.
Rupert Cornwell: Out of America
Sunday, 4 May 2008
Could last week go down as the moment when the roof fell in for Barack Obama? True, just 48 hours before Tuesday's crucial primaries in Indiana and North Carolina, the pundits maintain – albeit with a mite less conviction than before – that the Illinois senator is still overwhelmingly likely to be his party's nominee after the last vote is cast in this extraordinary Democratic primary season. But something fundamental has changed.
Rupert Cornwell: We must never forget the evil inspired by Hitler's regime
Thursday, 1 May 2008
Why bother with these doddering, pathetic old men, some of whom surely are dead and the youngest of whom now are in their mid-80s, when witnesses to their crimes of more than 60 years ago are themselves either no longer alive, or their memories have been hopelessly corroded by age?
Rupert Cornwell: Curse this sheer dumb Republican luck!
Thursday, 24 April 2008
In my wallet is a chit for a $100 bet I took out last summer with a Republican friend that a Democrat would win the US Presidency in November. These days I peruse the chit with the equanimity of a Bear Stearns hedge fund manager watching the sub-prime mortgage market go up in smoke.
Rupert Cornwell: The PM, the Pope, and some political realities
Friday, 18 April 2008
How easy to mock Gordon Brown and his current visit to America. Once again, nature's brooding, seemingly pre-ordained number two is playing second fiddle. For a decade Tony Blair dominated the stage. Now, in the capital of Britain's most important ally, thanks to a quirk (or should one say blunder?) of diplomatic scheduling, he is being eclipsed by Pope Benedict XVI.
Rupert Cornwell: Out of America - The obsession with polygraphs ignores the problem of human fallibility
Sunday, 13 April 2008
The Pentagon, the mightiest source of military power on the planet, is also its mightiest source of acronyms. Who else could have turned Maids from household helps into Multipurpose Automatic Inspection and Diagnostic Systems? In terms of creepiness, however, few come close to PCASS: Preliminary Credibility Assessment Screening System for acronym buffs, but in plain English, the hand-held instant lie detector.
Rupert Cornwell: Out of America
Sunday, 6 April 2008
Thank heavens there's at least one thing that Barack Obama is lousy at. Anxious to polish his credentials as an ordinary Joe, the super-polished and super-cool Democratic contender ventured the other day into a bowling alley while campaigning in Pennsylvania and – not to put too fine a point on it – disgraced himself.
Rupert Cornwell: The world's lone superpower is on the wane
Wednesday, 19 March 2008
Even now, here in the US, if you turn off the radio or television blaring the latest news of financial apocalypse, you can pretend that it's still business as usual.
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