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Simon Tisdall

Simon Tisdall is the Observer's foreign affairs commentator

August 2024

  • Masked demonstrator holds a smoking canister on a Nairobi street.

    New wars, old wars, famine, panic everywhere. So much for a quiet August

    Simon Tisdall
  • An oil storage facility ablaze in Hodeida, Yemen, after Israeli airstrikes in retaliation for a Houthi drone attack that killed a civilian in Tel Aviv.

    Hamas’s leader is dead, Iran vows revenge: can anything stop all-out war in the Middle East?

July 2024

  • A protester at Tehran University carries a picture of the dead Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.

    Israel has all but declared war in the Middle East – a conflict it cannot hope to win

    Simon Tisdall
    The killing of Hamas’s political leader has raised tensions yet again. Only a ceasefire in Gaza offers any prospect of peace, says the Observer’s foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
  • President Joe Biden at the White House on Thursday.

    Last Tango in Washington: how sad, sidelined Joe Biden may yet have the last laugh

    Simon Tisdall
    Far from being a lame duck, the president can use his time in office to champion US democracy and tackle unfinished business abroad
    • The post-Biden era may be uncertain for the Democrats, but for Trump it will be utterly dismaying

      Simon Tisdall
    • Pity US voters their choice of leaders. Surely democracy is better than this?

      Simon Tisdall
    • Nato should stop seeking new foes and face its main enemy – Moscow

      Simon Tisdall

June 2024

  • People in a pub laugh as they watch the televised debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.

    America’s big problem is not Biden, it’s the menace to democracy posed by Trump

    Simon Tisdall
  • Protesters in western Jerusalem on 20 June demand the resignation of Benjamin Netanyahu.

    The Middle East is drifting leaderless to catastrophe. War is just an airstrike away

    Simon Tisdall
  • Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin: both are sanctioned, ostracised and feared by the countries of the west.

    Putin and Kim are the odd couple with a dual mission – cementing a new world order

    Simon Tisdall
  • Nigel Farage launches election campaign in Clacton<br>epa11389305 Nigel Farage (C), leader of Reform UK party and prospective parliamentary candidate for Clacton, reacts after a young woman threw a milkshake at him, during a campaign event in Clacton-on-sea, Essex, Britain, 04 June 2024. A 25-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of assault after a milkshake was thrown at Farage. Britain will hold a snap general election on 04 July 2024.Â&nbsp; EPA/TOLGA AKMEN

    Rising violence against politicians is an attack on democracy itself

    Simon Tisdall
  • The panel
    Does Labour’s manifesto deliver what the country needs? Our panel’s verdict

    George Monbiot, Polly Toynbee, Devi Sridhar, Jonn Elledge, Peter Apps, Frances Ryan, Kojo Koram, Zoe Gardner, Simon Tisdall, Larry Elliott and Charlotte Higgins
  • In thrall to Viktor Orbán and the hard right, Europe is facing its moment of truth

    Simon Tisdall
  • Whatever happens next, the Donald Trump effect will continue to stain politics the world over

    Simon Tisdall

May 2024

  • Benjamin Netanyahu at a ceremony at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl military cemetery on 13 May 2024.

    By attacking and undermining the ICC, Israel has proved again it is a state gone rogue

    Simon Tisdall
  • Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu next to the country's national flag.

    Call to prosecute Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes exposes the west’s moral doublethink

    Simon Tisdall
  • A man sits near his home in Kharkiv, Ukraine, as smoke rises above the city after Russian shelling on 17 May.

    Nato’s failure to save Ukraine raises an existential question: what on earth is it for?

    Simon Tisdall
  • Smiling people in green hats with a poster reading: 'Vote! MK Party, 29 May 2024'.

    The ANC has left South Africa a land of broken dreams. Its time seems over

    Simon Tisdall
  • There’s one thing standing in the way of a ceasefire: Netanyahu’s refusal to compromise

    Simon Tisdall
  • Giorgia Meloni and Ursula von der Leyen, the double act that is steering the EU ever rightwards

    Simon Tisdall
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