Jonathan Power - weekly columns

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Apr 20, 20215 min read

The Cuban Missile crisis and the Bay of Pigs.

The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 is well remembered, even by those not yet born when it happened. The word has been passed down the...

Apr 6, 20214 min read

Yesterday morning I watched on BBC News the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, walking into the courtroom where he is to be...

Mar 30, 20216 min read

History and events have not been kind to Russia. Napoleon’s invasion, revolution, two world wars, Hitler’s invasion, Stalin’s communism...