Andrew’s alleged actions would be, in my view, unpardonable if proven. MPs with expenses scandals, Partygate survivors, and Boris defenders kicking him while he’s down are hypocrites. Both are wrong. It is, in my view, an unedifying spectacle, the sight …

Everyone wants Hamas gone. Reality: Gazans are turning back to them for security because occupiers destroyed everything else. This is what happens when you think only in military terms The Movement for Islamic Resistance – Hamas – with its charter …

Shelley wrote Ozymandias 200 years ago about a fallen tyrant’s hubris. Trump’s ‘King of Kings’ act follows the exact same pattern. Nemesis is coming.  ‘Percy Bysshe Shelley’s sonnet “Ozymandias”, written over two hundred years ago, is a description of hubris that sounds remarkably familiar.  Shelley describes what remains of a fallen statue to …

Prime Minister Netanyahu, in many ways the architect of his nation’s extraordinary success, has for long harboured concerns that his country may not survive to celebrate its 100 birthday. The PM likes to use the Jewish Hasmonean dynasty of 140 BC as his model. …

Attacking Iran will reduce the nuclear threat but do the likely catastrophic consequences for Iranians provide sufficient moral justification? The Middle East, like nature, abhors a vacuum. America’s ill-considered adventurism in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq saw it bogged down in hopeless wars for decades. More …

If you understand why politicians no longer resign over scandals, you understand how democracies slide into autocracy. Lord Peter Mandelson has never displayed much integrity. It can have come as little surprise to those who knew him that he was …

RAF Northolt’s VIP building glistened smugly with dew. Before it, beyond carefully trimmed box hedges and towering flag poles, the sleek white Hull of a Lear jet welcomed its charges. At the base of its staircase a staff sergeant saluted …

This is the start of my journey on social media. It’s an important step, allowing me to open the conversation beyond the pages of my books. I plan to be active on the main platforms where readers gather. I will …

Here you will find my blog, where I will share thoughts on writing, society, and the themes that drive my work. You will also find updates on my projects, background information about my approach to storytelling, and resources for those …

I write under the name Julian DeVille. This is a pen name, designed to protect my privacy while allowing me to present a clear identity to readers. I prefer the work to speak for itself. My writing is concerned with the tensions …