Donald Macintyre
The Independent's Jerusalem correspondent since 2004, Donald Macintyre was the paper’s Chief Political Commentator for eight years and before that Political Editor of The Independent and The Independent on Sunday. He has written for the Daily Express, Sunday Times, Times and Sunday Telegraph.
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Donald Macintyre: Revelations will not make Israel give up its policy of ambiguity
Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Revelations in Sasha Polakow-Suransky's book that talks between Israel and South Africa on the sale of missiles and warheads took place a generation ago have turned a harsh new spotlight on Israel's long-held policy of ambiguity over its nuclear arsenal.
Donald Macintyre: The man who can secure Labour's future
Saturday, 15 May 2010
David Miliband has a real chance of appealing to the widest range of electors
Donald Macintyre: Labour's leadership needs the stamp of a genuinely new era
Wednesday, 12 May 2010
Labour needs to occupy the Opposition benches with its taste for power intact, as it failed to do after Thatcher's victory in 1979
Donald Macintyre: The Lib Dems can talk to Cameron, but their future is surely with Labour
Saturday, 8 May 2010
The Lib Dems could be tough enough to insist that Brown should go, if not immediately, at least on a set timetable, perhaps after the PR referendum
Donald Macintyre: The Conservatives' dilemma is even worse than Labour's
Monday, 19 April 2010
David Cameron hesitates to go on the attack, but polls may force him to.
Donald Macintyre: The election of 2001 feels like a long time ago
Friday, 9 April 2010
Returning to the campaigning fray after nine years away, our writer encounters another political world
Donald Macintyre: A murder mystery no nearer solution
Friday, 26 February 2010
The puzzle seems to get more baffling each day. With another 15 suspects named by Dubai police in connection with the extrajudicial killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, the conclusion to a saga which would strain the credulity of even an avid spy novel reader seems no closer.
Donald Macintyre: Will they, won't they launch a coup?
Friday, 1 January 2010
You can't find a Labour figure who doesn't believe their chances better without Brown
Donald Macintyre: American jewry and Israel's interests
Friday, 23 October 2009
J Street challenges the monopoly of AIPAC which sees itself as the voice of US Jews
Donald Macintyre: Revelation may galvanise Security Council
Saturday, 26 September 2009
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