Andrew Murray

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MundoOriente Próximo

Five years ago this week most readers of this newspaper were making plans to go on a demonstration. More surprisingly, just as many Daily Telegraph readers were getting ready for the same event. For most of those who marched against the Iraq war on February 15 2003 it was the first time they had ever demonstrated for or against anything in their lives. It was a protest such as Britain had never seen before, all-embracing in its diversity and imposing in its unity of purpose.

While there are always arguments over the size of demonstrations (the 2 million-or-so figure we claim is supported by considerable polling and photographic evidence), there is no dispute that this was not merely the country's biggest political protest, but the biggest by a substantial order of magnitude.…  Seguir leyendo »

ReflexionesPensamiento, Cultura y Ciencia

For nearly two decades, the Thatcherite dictum that "there is no alternative" has been used to stifle serious challenge to the way the world is run, and right now there seems to be an increasingly urgent insistence that there is only one possible social and economic future for us all. It isn't just the hard men of the moneyed right asserting that capitalism is the only way to order human affairs. Liberals are also now unshakeably convinced that there can be no alternative to capitalism - unless perhaps it is a collapse into some variety of barbarism.

Timothy Garton Ash recently declared here that "global capitalism now has no serious rivals - but it could destroy itself" while Martin Kettle pronounced socialism incontrovertibly dead with no prospect of a second coming.…  Seguir leyendo »

MundoOriente PróximoEuropaUnión Europea,

We won't be fooled again. The allegation that Iranian explosives were behind the deaths of about 5% of the US soldiers killed during the occupation of Iraq is the latest instalment of a determined endeavour by the world's most practised liars to whip up a fresh war psychosis. It is not in the least surprising that Iranian weaponry should turn up in Iraq, given that much of the present government in Baghdad spent the Saddam years in exile in Tehran. Iranian merchandise does not, in this case, require the involvement of Iranian ministers, as US generals have now conceded.

Many sensible people seem inclined to dismiss the possibility of any attack on Tehran as too mad to contemplate.…  Seguir leyendo »

EuropaUnión Europea

"How goes the empire?" Perhaps Tony Blair will be tempted to repeat King George V's dying words as he prepares to shuffle off his own political coil. It is a measure of the extent to which the prime minister's foreign policy has restored imperialism to the political vocabulary of the country that, when his legacy is debated, the state of empire will be the main issue.The answer is that it goes pretty badly. The new imperialism which will for ever be linked to the names Bush and Blair has taken just five years to hit the buffers of popular opposition and moral ignominy.…  Seguir leyendo »