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: What am I bid for a Senate seat? Half a million should do it
Out of America: Chicago politics has always been a sewer, but this scandal is a throwback to the days of Al Capone
Recently by Rupert Cornwell
Rupert Cornwell: Obama steps out from the shadow of the Clintons
Sunday, 7 December 2008
Out of America: By taking Hillary into his cabinet, the president-elect has taken a calculated gamble on Bill's behaviour
Rupert Cornwell: At last! The cure for Chicago's inferiority complex has arrived
Sunday, 30 November 2008
Out of America: No more 'Second City' – the president-elect's adopted home town has joined the big league now
Rupert Cornwell: Coolly, calmly, Obama is putting together a remarkable team
Sunday, 23 November 2008
Out of America: Even senior Republicans admit that – on paper, at least – the president-elect is assembling a very impressive administration
Rupert Cornwell:Formidable opponent is now the best choice
Saturday, 22 November 2008
There are many clever explanations for Barack Obama's apparent decision to endow America with its third Madam Secretary of State in a decade.
Rupert Cornwell: Where can the Republicans go now?
Friday, 21 November 2008
The comparison is the 1997 rout of the Tories, another party that had outstayed its welcome
Rupert Cornwell: Returning to the past is way forward for Obama
Monday, 17 November 2008
At first glance it looks like the ‘Clinton restoration’ that Barack Obama’s victory had seemingly forestalled. In fact however, Mr Obama’s selection of many aides associated with the last Democratic president obeys a deeper logic – of ensuring his administration hits the ground running, something Bill Clinton signally failed to achieve when he took power in January 1993.
Rupert Cornwell: This is no time to be waiting for the 44th President
Sunday, 16 November 2008
Amid the global economic crisis, Washington's interregnum feels dangerously long
Rupert Cornwell: After the victory, what next?
Sunday, 9 November 2008
President-elect Barack Obama has already started to put his team in place – just as well, given the scale of the challenges he will face come January
Rupert Cornwell: How Bush's toxic legacy did for his party
Wednesday, 5 November 2008
The Republicans are now facing a civil war between centrists and conservatives
A spectacular volte-face in the home of capitalism
Wednesday, 15 October 2008
Rupert Cornwell: What further indignities might then be heaped on America's battered free market?
|
|
Columnist Comments
• Hamish McRae: It's now back to Victorian values
The 19th century constructed not just a regulatory financial code but a moral one
• Mark Steel: To George Bush, his critics are just lone difficult schoolboys
It's impossible for the President to acknowledge his failure in Iraq
• The Sketch: Davies the demonic, red-faced alien
Imagine being shown round the Great Hall of Quentin Court, or wherever it is that the Procurement Minister lives
Most popular in Opinion
Read
1 Leading article: A life claimed by nihilistic violence and malign neglect
2 Mark Steel: To George Bush, his critics are just lone difficult schoolboys
3 Hamish McRae: It's now back to Victorian values
4 Deborah Orr: This is what happens when only a gang makes you feel you belong
6 The Sketch: Davies the demonic, red-faced alien
7 Steve Connor: The black hole we can almost see
8 Alexa Chung: 'When did Christmas stop being exciting and start being a chore?'
9 Daniel Howden: The tyrant's comrade who masterminded massacres
10 John Walsh: 'No wonder Sir Paul feels he can hector the Dalai Lama for eating meat...'
Emailed
Commented
1 Leading article: A life claimed by nihilistic violence and malign neglect
2 Mark Steel: To George Bush, his critics are just lone difficult schoolboys
3 Hamish McRae: It's now back to Victorian values
4 Patrick Cockburn: Keep out... a message for foreign leaders
5 Alexa Chung: 'When did Christmas stop being exciting and start being a chore?'
6 Deborah Orr: This is what happens when only a gang makes you feel you belong
7 John Walsh: 'No wonder Sir Paul feels he can hector the Dalai Lama for eating meat...'
8 Alex James: Winter means a heating headache
9 Leading article: Malfunctioning government
10 Janet Street-Porter: Who will teach teenagers not to binge drink?
|
|
Register for free to find your perfect partner with Independent Singles