Max Hastings

1 week ago | thetimes.com | Max Hastings

Our annual visit to an idyllic south Devon cottage was clouded by news that the beach there has been declared too polluted to be safe for bathing. Penny worried that the dogs might suffer, but I assured her that they spend so much of their lives exploring excrement for pleasure that a little more would not trouble them. Seriously, though, it defies belief that the water companies have got away with so much for so long.

2 weeks ago | independent.ie | Max Hastings

While we anguish over Donald Trump’s wars on trade, judges, migrants, aid recipients and universities, spare a thought for Volodymyr Zelensky. Every morning when Ukraine’s president wakes up, he must ask himself whether this is the day the US will again cut off its lifeline flow of arms to his country. Last week, Zelensky expressed his willingness to meet Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Istanbul, but the Russian declined, sending only a delegation of Kremlin stooges.

3 weeks ago | business-standard.com | Max Hastings

By Max Hastings While we anguish over Donald Trump's wars on trade, judges, migrants, aid recipients and universities, spare a thought for Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Every morning when Ukraine's president wakes up, he must ask himself whether this is the day the US will again cut off its lifeline flow of arms to his country. This week, Zelenskiy expressed his willingness to meet Russia's Vladimir Putin in Istanbul, but the Russian declined, sending only a delegation of Kremlin stooges.

3 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Max Hastings

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Ankara May 15.  (Bloomberg Opinion) -- While we anguish over Donald Trump’s wars on trade, judges, migrants, aid recipients and universities, spare a thought for Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Every morning when Ukraine’s president wakes up, he must ask himself whether this is the day the US will again cut off its lifeline flow of arms to his country.

3 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Max Hastings

And then we all became crisps, and most of the world a vacant desert, unless one chanced to live in Argentina or Uruguay, which might be spared. "Over time, almost no one will survive," Mark Lynas writes in his revisit to the Dr Strangelove nuclear doomsday scenario. "What is surprising ... is how little anyone seems to care." He means that, in a world insanely overburdened with nuclear weapons capable of extinguishing humankind, it is extraordinary that we seem so little moved by the prospect.