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David Gardner

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David Gardner is International Affairs Editor at the FT, which he joined in 1978. He has been Chief Leader Writer, Middle East Editor, and an FT correspondent in Europe, Latin America and South Asia.

He writes columns, commentary and analysis, mainly on the Middle East

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  • Friday, 3 January, 2020
    Instant InsightIran
    Soleimani assassination risks war between US and Iran

    Killing of Quds commander takes Trump presidency into dangerous territory

  • Friday, 6 December, 2019
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    A meticulous account of the killing of Jamal Khashoggi

    ‘The Killing in the Consulate’ by Jonathan Rugman is a damning portrayal of Saudi Arabia’s rulers

  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2019
    Lebanon
    Lebanese protests have given way to a debt crisis

    The country’s banking system is in hock to an insolvent state

  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2019
    US foreign policy
    The world will count cost of Trump’s Middle East moves

    Legitimising Israeli settlements is the latest in a long line of miscalculations

  • Wednesday, 13 November, 2019
    Spanish politics
    Spain’s new coalition fails to break the deadlock

    Centrists have paid heavily for missing a historic opportunity in April

  • Tuesday, 5 November, 2019
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Protests in Iraq and Lebanon threaten status quo

    It is not clear that a peaceful resolution of the current turmoil is possible

  • Tuesday, 29 October, 2019
    Isis
    A third, more terrible, incarnation of Isis could yet appear

    The chaos caused by US troop withdrawal in northern Syria could see a resurgence of jihadism

  • Monday, 28 October, 2019
    ReviewBooks
    Erdogan Rising, by Hannah Lucinda Smith

    An engaging portrait of a figure of political legend

  • Wednesday, 23 October, 2019
    Syrian crisis
    Russia is the winner in Donald Trump’s Syria mess

    It is an undoubted plus for Vladimir Putin to have his military police patrolling a Nato border

  • Promoted Content
  • Wednesday, 16 October, 2019
    Syrian crisis
    Trump’s Syria pivot is a boon to enemies of the west

    Russia, Iran and their client Assad have had a huge win from the US’s withdrawal

  • Monday, 7 October, 2019
    Syrian crisis
    Trump’s troop withdrawal leaves Syria a time bomb

    Syrian Kurdish allies have been left to their own devices as Turkey prepares for an incursion

  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2019
    Syrian crisis
    Syria’s violent demographic re-engineering

    The Assad regime is trying to ensure a Sunni-majority population cannot be recreated

  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2019
    Iran
    Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’ campaign against Iran has backfired

    Pulling out of the nuclear deal has emboldened Tehran and exposed Saudi Arabia

  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2019
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Benjamin Netanyahu is in the fight of his life

    It is too early to write off the Likud leader, but the parliamentary deadlock may block his power

  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2019
    Turkey
    The curious case of US-Turkey relations

    A sudden outbreak of harmony between Ankara and Washington looks too good to last

  • Wednesday, 14 August, 2019
    India-Pakistan relations
    Clampdown in Kashmir reflects global disorder

    Narendra Modi is taking advantage of Donald Trump’s wilful and erratic foreign policy

  • Tuesday, 6 August, 2019
    Iran
    Sanctioning Iran’s foreign minister is futile — and worrying

    The Trump administration has probably blocked the best path back to mediation

  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2019
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Autocracy marches across the Middle East

    Things have gone badly wrong in the region since the promise of the Arab spring

  • Tuesday, 23 July, 2019
    Iran
    Iran runs out of incentives to listen to west 

    The US lurches between offers of talks and lurid threats

  • Friday, 12 July, 2019
    FT Magazine
    Why Basques and Catalans see independence differently

    Separatists from Spain’s minority nations have undergone a role reversal in recent years

  • Wednesday, 26 June, 2019
    Turkish politics
    Turkish democracy will labour to survive one-man rule

    Trial of civil society activists looks like revenge by president on those he thinks exposed his vulnerability

  • Sunday, 23 June, 2019
    Instant InsightTurkish politics
    Istanbul loss marks tectonic shift for Turkey  

    Decisive victory for Imamoglu in mayoral poll proves Erdogan can be defeated

  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2019
    Iran nuclear deal
    The US and Iran play nuclear roulette in the Gulf

    Tehran is threatening to breach its obligations as Washington ramps up the pressure

  • Tuesday, 11 June, 2019
    Arab-Israel conflict
    Trump’s Israel-Palestine ‘deal’ is a fraud

    It is a smokescreen for the burial of the two-state solution

  • Tuesday, 28 May, 2019
    Turkish politics
    Turkey’s Erdogan is caught between two fires

    Rows with Russia and the US over defence procurement could turn into a crisis for the president

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