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: Power in Iran - a labyrinthine system
The regime in Iran is now desperately – and so far uncertainly – playing for time while it tries to work out just what is happening in the country and the forces that are now engulfing it. The Council of Guardians has agreed to a recount of the disputed results. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was seen off for the day to a summit in Russia. Talks have been opened up with the main opposition leaders. The foreign press has been effectively confined to barracks. The authorities have warned against demonstrations but appear to have held back from trying to suppress them by force.
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Adrian Hamilton: This exercise won't even ask the hard questions
Tuesday, 16 June 2009
The invasion of Iraq, as Tony Blair now accepts in private, is the great cloud that lours over his premiership and the New Labour Government, despite every effort to push it into the margins of history. It was the most divisive issue of a generation, and perhaps more, which could find no resolution either in the regimented debates of Parliament or two successive inquiries, by Lord Hutton into the death of Dr David Kelly and by Lord Butler into the use of intelligence.
Adrian Hamilton: An election that bodes ill for Iranians more than the West
Monday, 15 June 2009
Once again the West is caught between its interests and its principles
Adrian Hamilton: Brown's reforms won't restore trust
Thursday, 11 June 2009
Far from taking politics into the 21st century, he's moving it back to the 18th
Adrian Hamilton: Don't knock Obama before he's tried in the Middle East
Thursday, 4 June 2009
There is an element of double think in the reactions to his Cairo speech
Adrian Hamilton: The wrong way to reform the Select Committee system
Thursday, 28 May 2009
The problem is not an overweening executive but that policy is so poor
Adrian Hamilton: I'd rather see my own doctor, please
Monday, 25 May 2009
If a GP won't take responsibility for you, who in the whole system will?
Adrian Hamilton: This no time to despair of humanitarian intervention
Thursday, 21 May 2009
All our pressure on Sri Lanka for a ceasefire failed to produce anything
Adrian Hamilton: Here we go again, back to bank profits and big bonuses
Thursday, 14 May 2009
Just as before, the returns are being made in the investment arms
Adrian Hamilton: Israel is just using Iran to stall progress on the Middle East
Friday, 8 May 2009
Israel is not Iran's primary concern, or target, and never has been
Adrian Hamilton: Demonising Pakistan will not solve Afghanistan
Thursday, 30 April 2009
The reality is that Pakistan has never had authority over the tribal areas
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• Mark Steel: Why not hold all trials in private?
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