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: Once again, those who reveal the truth are punished
How ironic, and how typical, that so many commentators have joined in censoring General Stanley McChrystal for speaking out too openly to a reporter on Rolling Stone. The result of his own arrogance, they declare. Some even accuse him of naivety in choosing to talk to this particular journalist, Michael Hastings, on this particular publication.
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Adrian Hamilton: G8 and G20: what's the difference?
Thursday, 24 June 2010
You have to feel sorry for the poor Canadians. With a right-wing government hell-bent on massive public expenditure cuts, they have to fund not just one grand international summit with the G20 this weekend, but two, with the G8 summit on Friday. And in separate places. The G8 summit takes place in Muskoska, the G20 meeting in Toronto. All the security, the transport and accommodation doubled.
Adrian Hamilton: Words and waffle over Afghanistan
Thursday, 17 June 2010
It hasn't taken David Cameron long to start talking pure codswallop with an air of easy authority. I don't mean over the Saville report, which he has managed with consummate skill, or relations with President Obama over BP, on which he has said all the right things despite a media frenzy for him to "stand up for Britain". I don't doubt that he will manage with equal facility his first EU summit today.
Adrian Hamilton: Europe isn't just a matter of foreign policy
Thursday, 10 June 2010
On the "Who Would Have Thunk It?" scale, the new Foreign Secretary William Hague's tour of the major European capitals this week must mark pretty high. It was only a few months ago that he, and his boss, were talking of Europe as if it were some alien threat, only to be approached with extreme caution.
Adrian Hamilton: Israel had few enough friends to start with
Thursday, 3 June 2010
Is Israel's assault on the Gaza flotilla the moment which historians will look back on and see the point when international support for the nation began to change and the its government could no longer rely on the West to see it through right or wrong?
Adrian Hamilton: This is a crisis of politics not markets
Thursday, 27 May 2010
The striking thing about the euro crisis and the crash in the markets is not that they should happen. You would have needed to be living on a different planet to have been ignorant of the fact that the financial crisis wasn't over and that further disruptions were bound to occur. What is so startling is the sheer joy with which so many commentators and experts are now predicting the end of the euro and the collapse of the European dream.
Adrian Hamilton: 'New politics' also applies to Europe
Thursday, 20 May 2010
Europe was supposed to be the great dividing issue of the new government coalition here. And on every logical basis it should be. The two parties couldn't be further apart than in their approaches. The Lib Dems believe in it, the Tories, and David Cameron personally, feeling nothing but distaste for Brussels and all it stands for.
Adrian Hamilton: It doesn't help to obsess over Iran
Thursday, 6 May 2010
For those who remember the days of Nikita Kruschev and Fidel Castro, there was something wonderfully retro about the Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty summit in New York this week. There was Iran's President Ahmadinejad, all smiles and stubble, haranguing the West in general and the US and Israel in particular for their sins. And there were the British, US and French delegations, walking out, all clenched buttocks and po faces, as he gathered momentum.
Adrian Hamilton: The foreign in tonight's debate
Thursday, 22 April 2010
It seems positively perverse to have the second debate between the political leaders on the issues of "Foreign Policy and Europe" when the subject has been barely mentioned in the campaign so far. All this could change after tonight, of course. But so far, it has to be said, our political chiefs have talked about virtually every issue but Europe and foreign policy.
Adrian Hamilton: Obama's interests are not always ours
Thursday, 15 April 2010
If he has preferences it is for a Cold War bilateralism with Russia and China
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