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Patrick Cockburn

Patrick Cockburn is an award-winning columnist specialising in the Middle East. A foreign correspondent in Moscow, Washington, Jerusalem, Belfast, Beirut and Baghdad, Patrick is also the author of nine books, including The Rise of Islamic State, which was translated into 18 languages. He wrote with his son Henry the best-selling Henry’s Demons: Living with Schizophrenia, which was a finalist for the Costa Books Award. His latest book, Behind Enemy Lies, was published in October.

Article thumbnail: TOPSHOT - US President Joe Biden leaves after speaking at a Ukraine Compact initiative on the sidelines of the NATO Summit at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC, on July 11, 2024. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Joe Biden's impaired judgement is already doing terrible damage

A feature of Biden’s mental disintegration is that so many people refused to recognise it for so long

Britain is crumbling. Is Labour radical enough to fix it?

The UK's political nervous breakdown is finally over. Now it can recover

Article thumbnail: Hereford Image by Henry Cockburn Image supplied via jem1@kent.ac.uk

Julian Assange was monstered for doing what every journalist should

In the first Red Wall seat to turn Tory, people no longer believe in Brexit