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Strategic: US President Donald Trump’s infamous gaffe “Where did you learn your English?” to his Liberian counterpart Joseph Boakai was no
diplomatic misstep. Photo: Daniel Torok

Unmasking Washington’s strategic disengagement

Trump’s inflammatory remarks about “white genocide” during President Cyril Ramaphosa’s state visit were not merely offensive; they invoked white nationalist tropes aimed at…

Former United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger attends the ceremony for the Henry A. Kissinger Prize on January 21, 2020 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Adam Berry/Getty Images)

Henry Kissinger, singular US diplomat, dead at 100

While Kissinger’s intellectual gifts were begrudgingly acknowledged, he remains deeply controversial for his ruthless philosophy of realpolitik

former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger. (Photo by Daniel Vogl/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Kissinger in China: Hope for positivity in Sino-US relations

Will the Biden administration heed the advice of its oldest and most famous diplomat?

President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Photo: Reuters)

Ramaphosa condemns war, but not Russia specifically

President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday the war in Ukraine could have been avoided if Nato had heeded caution not to expand eastwards, as he reiterated that South Africa was…

Blatter wants Domingo part of the ‘council of wisdom’

Opera great Placido Domingo has been considering an invitation from Fifa president Sepp Blatter to help clean up world football’s governing body.

Kissinger recommended for Fifa anti-corruption squad

Kissinger recommended for Fifa anti-corruption squad

Sepp Blatter backs his friend and former US secretary of state for "solution committee" to restore faith in the game’s governing body.

‘In America we have failed’

Sam Sole, the M&G‘s award-winning investigative reporter, and Matthew Burbidge, news editor of the M&G Online, interviewed Seymour Hersch, the original newsman, who says ”The…

His final bow: Bush’s last supper with the press

United States President George Bush described his mood as ”a little wistful” on Saturday night as he attended his last White House correspondents’ dinner. The president, who is…

A neocon by any other name

Robert Kagan, author, essayist, former diplomat, pre-eminent thinker of what is called ”neoconservatism” — and now foreign policy adviser to Republican presidential nominee John…

Death of a madman driven sane by chess

So the king is dead, the game over. Bobby Fischer — perhaps the greatest player in the history of chess, certainly the most charismatic and controversial — has died of kidney…

Chess genius Bobby Fischer: From hero to fugitive

Bobby Fischer, who died on January 17 aged 64, was a high school dropout who may have been the greatest chess player of all time, but ended his life in eccentric seclusion. The…