‘There is no connection between Islam and “terror”, says Robert Fisk – but there is a connection between our occupation of Muslim lands and “terror”’. He takes us on a brief historical excursion.

Robert Fisk offers a biting commentary on the cynical role of the British diplomat, focusing on Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles – ‘Abu Henry’ to his Saudi friends.

A man who is totally discredited in the Middle East now believes that he is the right man to lead the Quartet to patch up “Palestine”. Robert Fisk on what Tony Blair is likely to achieve as “our” Middle East envoy.

My Dad used to call people like Blair a ‘twerp’. But I fear he is a vicious little man.

Our Marines are hostages. Two more were shown on Iranian TV. Petrol bombs burst behind the walls of the British embassy in Tehran. But it’s definitely not the war on terror. It’s the war of humiliation.

Robert Fisk finds in Shakespeare’s works not only eerily prescient portayals of the horrors of war, but also reflections of contemporary racism and imperial ideology.

A guilty verdict on Britain and America too.

And so on we go with the Middle East tragedy, telling the world that things are getting better when they are getting worse, that democracy is flourishing when it is swamped in blood, that freedom is not without “birth pangs” when the midwife is killing the baby.

How London’s terror scare looks from Beirut

Robert Fisk interviewed by Democracy Now! on the Israeli bombing of Qana that killed 57, including 37 children, the media’s reaction, and US/UK complicity.

Don’t be fooled – this isn’t an issue of Islam versus secularism.

All over the globe, our leaders seem to be suffering from a severe bout of infantilism.