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Debate, opinion and editorial views from @TheNationalNews, the leading English-language daily newspaper of the UAE.
- Five years later, there is little the Covid-19 pandemic has left untouched, from politics to technology to the way we lead our lives - thenationalnews.com/opinion/2025/0… Nick March @NicholasMarch via @TheNationalNews
- Where do Turkey, Iran and Israel fit in Trump's reset of US-Arab relations? - thenationalnews.com/opinion/commen… Raghida Dergham @raghidadergham via @TheNationalNews
- We are sometimes taught at school is that the British system is “the envy of the world”. It isn’t. Blair won a landslide in 1997 and decided not to change a system that had made him PM. Starmer is in a similar position. Opinion | Gavin Esler @gavinesler
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00:00 - The US President must listen to his friends in Saudi Arabia and the GCC. Opinion | Prince Turki Al Faisal via @TheNationalNews
- Iran’s real strength lies not in uranium or ideology but in its young population, rich culture and vast natural resources. Opinion | Mohamad Ali Harisi @aleeharissi via @TheNationalNews thenationalnews.com/opinion/commen…
- The AI entity will not vote or replace ministers. Instead, it will serve as a strategic co-pilot: scanning, simulating and synthesising complex variables to support sharper, faster and more transparent decisions. Opinion | Dr Yasar Jarrar @yasar_jarrar
- This is a moment in the Israel-Gaza war for wise leadership, not backroom dealings and posturings. tinyurl.com/y8d8kb63 | Raghida Dergham @raghidadergham via @TheNationalNews
- The relationship between British newspapers and the royal family is, and perhaps always has been, very odd. It manages to be simultaneously fawning and predatory. news.ae/3RO4fje | Gavin Esler @gavinesler via @TheNationalNews
- #BorisJohnson – unlike #nicolasturgeon – speaks as if has read many 1950s children’s books by Enid Blyton, where everyone has a jolly good time, with lashings of jelly, ice-cream and cake. Gavin Esler @gavinesler | tinyurl.com/yywsz4ef via @TheNationalUAE #BrexitReality
- Gun law: the unstoppable rise of Indian police encounter shootings, by @nehadixit123 thenational.ae/opinion/commen… via @TheNationalUAE
- Why did so many British newspapers just play down a real royal story? #Opinion | Gavin Esler @gavinesler Read more: news.ae/3RO4fje via @TheNationalNews
- The switch to “traditional” blue passports is the clearest symbol of a government obsessed with public relations activity rather than progress, writes Gavin Esler @gavinesler | bit.ly/37PC0GF via @TheNationalUAE
