Miranda Husain

Spain is a country that has long traded on its status as a transitioning democracy, following the fall of Gen Franco back in 1975. Admittedly, this has been a long and arduous journey. Yet just three years after the death of the military dictator that ruled the country for some 40-odd years and Spain had […]

They are a people who have been waiting for a century for their homeland. They represent the world’s largest people without a state. They comprise the fourth largest ethnic group in the Middle East, totalling a 25 million-strong population. They are the Kurds. And they have had enough. This was demonstrated by the independence referendum […]

No one minded their language in England. Not back when the Rivers of Blood were still foaming from the threshold of No 10. Not when the Beeb didn’t mind. Snatches of childhood memories are filled with scenes from television sitcoms watched at tea time, or perhaps, rather decadently, just before bed and the inevitable furtive […]

Donald Trump is a busy man. Having cast himself as the beau of the ball – his dance card is now well and truly full. This brings with it a slightly new spin on that old conundrum: so many conquests to be had and so little time. To be sure, the showman president may well […]

It’s not fun being Nawaz Sharif at the moment. He can’t decide where to plonk himself down. For neither the devil nor the deep blue sea looks particularly inviting at the moment. Yet he likely can’t help but wonder at the unfairness of it all. For the tragedy is that all these years without a […]

Oh dear. Donald Trump has been ousted by one of his own. Meaning that the top US military officer — Gen Joseph Dunford — has snitched to Congress as to what may be the real reason behind the showman president’s public threats to the North Korean Rocket Man and his regime. In a word, it […]

Gen (rtd) Musharraf, it seems, has something in common with a certain American singer who, in her heyday, mused at the futility of a life off-camera. For the former military strongman certainly only appears to recall the truth when recasting himself in the role of talking head. Yet this time, he really has outdone himself. […]

If Donald Trump’s maiden speech at the UN has demonstrated to the world one thing, it is this: he simply didn’t get the memo. Someone somewhere really ought to have taken the trouble of spelling it out for him. That the above anacronym doesn’t, in fact, stand for Unilateral Nation. Similarly, there should have been […]

It was the speech that Donald Trump should have delivered to Pakistan. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani might not have his predecessor’s flamboyant wardrobe but he demonstrated almost equal doses of charisma at the UN. Aside, that is, from his near total endorsement of the Trump strategic vision for South Asia. Which of course focuses on […]