Nigel Jones is a historian and journalist
I have been having a John le Carré holiday. Five years after the great master of the spy thriller went to his final safe house in the sky, I spent chunks of the festive season watching two of his series on TV, and reading a slim volume called The Secret Life of John le Carré
Donald Trump’s undeclared war in Venezuela against the Marxist regime of President Nicolas Maduro has erupted into the open. Trump says the US has captured Venezuela’s leader and his wife. In a statement on Truth Social, Trump wrote: The United States of America has successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela and its leader, President
The victory of Jose Antonio Kast confirms Latin America’s shift to the right
It was an ethnic massacre so bad that it could be seen from space. Satellites picked up bloodied patches of soil in North Darfur’s capital, El Fasher, after Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) swept into the besieged city. Pools of blood and piles of bodies were identified. Thousands of people are feared to have died in
US air strikes destroyed four more boats allegedly carrying narcotics
He vowed that his victory would enable him to ‘make Argentina great again’
Left-wing rule has left the country’s economy in chaos
Sanae Takaichi is Japan’s most right-wing Prime Minister
His time in office, like Trump’s, split the country down the middle. Supporters claim that Brazil’s Supreme Court is prejudiced against him
Markets are worried about the landslide defeat for the Argentine president in local elections
The President has condemned the trial that’s entering its final stages as a ‘witch hunt’
Maduro’s regime has derived much of its income from the drug trade which has been wreaking chaos in America, which Trump has pledged to halt
Hundreds of thousands of people marched in the streets
Thousands of people lined up this week to register with the regime’s militia
Narco-terrorists brought down a police helicopter with a drone
The swing to the right could mean that Bolivia is following Argentina, where President Javier Milei was elected
This batch of redacted documents is more likely to fuel accusations of a deep-state conspiracy rather than solve mysteries
The Hitler Years: Disaster, 1940-1945 by Frank McDonough reviewed
