Roland Oliphant
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Chief Foreign Something @telegraph.co.uk
I've been lucky enough to report from Iran a couple of times over the years. Each time I was there, water was an issue on people's minds, including officials I spoke to. But if everyone knew there was a problem, how did Tehran end up on the brink of running dry? youtu.be/zlP2If9uzV4?...
'Worse than war with Israel': Why Iran's regime is on edge
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November 12, 2025 at 9:27 AM
I've been lucky enough to report from Iran a couple of times over the years. Each time I was there, water was an issue on people's minds, including officials I spoke to. But if everyone knew there was a problem, how did Tehran end up on the brink of running dry? youtu.be/zlP2If9uzV4?...
Fridays battlelines on El Fasher youtu.be/uPWsrH5XdDg?...
How a Middle Eastern superpower is fuelling the Sudan war
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November 3, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Fridays battlelines on El Fasher youtu.be/uPWsrH5XdDg?...
The Telegraph cannot keep its credibility if it is not transparently independent
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November 3, 2025 at 6:30 AM
The Telegraph cannot keep its credibility if it is not transparently independent
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Verification asks: can we reliably establish what is true? Deliberation asks: can we debate and decide fairly together? Accountability asks: can we hold power to account? If one or more of those breaks down, democracy doesn’t just wobble, it hollows out.
October 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Verification asks: can we reliably establish what is true? Deliberation asks: can we debate and decide fairly together? Accountability asks: can we hold power to account? If one or more of those breaks down, democracy doesn’t just wobble, it hollows out.
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Reupping this article from February — because nothing has changed.
Putin is still being allowed to fight at the table for what he can’t win on the ground.
Trump is still pursuing normalisation at the expense of Ukraine.
Europe is still prostrate.
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Putin is still being allowed to fight at the table for what he can’t win on the ground.
Trump is still pursuing normalisation at the expense of Ukraine.
Europe is still prostrate.
www.newstatesman.com/world/europe...
This is Europe’s war now
The continent’s future depends on outflanking America. British troops in Ukraine is the first step.
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October 20, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Reupping this article from February — because nothing has changed.
Putin is still being allowed to fight at the table for what he can’t win on the ground.
Trump is still pursuing normalisation at the expense of Ukraine.
Europe is still prostrate.
www.newstatesman.com/world/europe...
Putin is still being allowed to fight at the table for what he can’t win on the ground.
Trump is still pursuing normalisation at the expense of Ukraine.
Europe is still prostrate.
www.newstatesman.com/world/europe...
This old chestnut gets wheeled out every decade or so.
Might as well build a tunnel on the moon. Would be as useful/feasible/viable
Might as well build a tunnel on the moon. Would be as useful/feasible/viable
Kremlin's special envoy Dmitriev addressed Elon Musk with the idea of building a tunnel from Russia to Alaska via the Bering Strait.
"Imagine connecting the US and Russia, the Americas and the Afro-Eurasia with the Putin-Trump Tunnel," he wrote on X.
"Imagine connecting the US and Russia, the Americas and the Afro-Eurasia with the Putin-Trump Tunnel," he wrote on X.
October 17, 2025 at 9:53 AM
This old chestnut gets wheeled out every decade or so.
Might as well build a tunnel on the moon. Would be as useful/feasible/viable
Might as well build a tunnel on the moon. Would be as useful/feasible/viable
Tomorrow evening: Giants of journalism @andreisoldatov.bsky.social, Irina Borogan and Catherine Belton on what Putin did to Russia. No one can tell the story better, so come along: www.theconduit.com/upcoming-eve...
Inside Russia - The Conduit
Tue 14 Oct, 6pm - 7:30pm How do you understand a country where the truth itself is under siege?
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October 13, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Tomorrow evening: Giants of journalism @andreisoldatov.bsky.social, Irina Borogan and Catherine Belton on what Putin did to Russia. No one can tell the story better, so come along: www.theconduit.com/upcoming-eve...
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🚨Almost nine in 10 clinics in war-ravaged DRC run low on medicines
@icrc.org warns that health centres in the eastern region face a dire situation amid a mass exodus of medical staff
@benfarmerdt.bsky.social has the latest
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@icrc.org warns that health centres in the eastern region face a dire situation amid a mass exodus of medical staff
@benfarmerdt.bsky.social has the latest
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October 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
🚨Almost nine in 10 clinics in war-ravaged DRC run low on medicines
@icrc.org warns that health centres in the eastern region face a dire situation amid a mass exodus of medical staff
@benfarmerdt.bsky.social has the latest
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
@icrc.org warns that health centres in the eastern region face a dire situation amid a mass exodus of medical staff
@benfarmerdt.bsky.social has the latest
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
Taking questions on this topic in the comment thread from 1500. Ask away: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10...
October 8, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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How China Spies: or why Beijing's way of espionage is a bit different to the Western (and even Russian) way www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10...
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October 8, 2025 at 1:32 PM
How China Spies: or why Beijing's way of espionage is a bit different to the Western (and even Russian) way www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10...
In 1916 it was the tank. In 2025, it is lasers and stuff. How the war in Ukraine is sending us hurtling into the grim darkness for fully automated robot war.
Taking questions this afternoon: post in the comments and lets chat about techno distopia
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Taking questions this afternoon: post in the comments and lets chat about techno distopia
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October 1, 2025 at 3:33 PM
In 1916 it was the tank. In 2025, it is lasers and stuff. How the war in Ukraine is sending us hurtling into the grim darkness for fully automated robot war.
Taking questions this afternoon: post in the comments and lets chat about techno distopia
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Taking questions this afternoon: post in the comments and lets chat about techno distopia
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September 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Russia dropped a bomb on a Ukrainian village yesterday that murdered at least 23 elderly people.
September 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Russia dropped a bomb on a Ukrainian village yesterday that murdered at least 23 elderly people.
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Russia hit a village in Donetsk Oblast with an aerial bomb as locals were receiving their pensions, killing 20 people and wounding 20 others.
September 9, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Russia hit a village in Donetsk Oblast with an aerial bomb as locals were receiving their pensions, killing 20 people and wounding 20 others.
Just finished this film about Kharkiv. Made me feel ashamed at how numbed I have come to the news from that wonderful city. Watch: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Eye Investigations - Kharkiv War Diaries
Video diaries from people who chose to stay in Ukraine’s frontline city. Filmed over a year, and shared with BBC Eye, the film captures human stories from the aftermath of Trump’s new style diplomacy.
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September 9, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Just finished this film about Kharkiv. Made me feel ashamed at how numbed I have come to the news from that wonderful city. Watch: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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In other words, the coalition of the willing is unwilling to help until Ukraine doesn't need its help. Surely at some point someone has to realise that this approach just incentivises Putin to keep the war going?
On troop deployment:
Macron *very* clear twice: only the day *after* the ceasefire, and any deployment must be part of a "ceasefire, a truce, or a peace agreement". In other words: no European boots on the ground before an agreement.
Macron *very* clear twice: only the day *after* the ceasefire, and any deployment must be part of a "ceasefire, a truce, or a peace agreement". In other words: no European boots on the ground before an agreement.
September 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
In other words, the coalition of the willing is unwilling to help until Ukraine doesn't need its help. Surely at some point someone has to realise that this approach just incentivises Putin to keep the war going?
David Blair on why talk of leaving the Refugee Convention - "a painstaking and entirely reasonable attempt to strike a balance between humanitarian compassion and national sovereignty" - is half witted. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09...
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September 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM
David Blair on why talk of leaving the Refugee Convention - "a painstaking and entirely reasonable attempt to strike a balance between humanitarian compassion and national sovereignty" - is half witted. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09...
North Korea analysts are a very thoughtful bunch, which made reporting this a fascinating and enjoyable job. On the Kim dynasty's succession plans: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09...
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September 5, 2025 at 9:03 AM
North Korea analysts are a very thoughtful bunch, which made reporting this a fascinating and enjoyable job. On the Kim dynasty's succession plans: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09...
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The clearing of the rubble in a Kyiv high-rise house bombed by russia — which claimed 25 lives — has just ended, and already a new swarm of russian drones fills our skies, with Tu jets preparing for takeoff and the launch of cruise missiles.
This is a never-ending 9/11.
This is a never-ending 9/11.
August 29, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The clearing of the rubble in a Kyiv high-rise house bombed by russia — which claimed 25 lives — has just ended, and already a new swarm of russian drones fills our skies, with Tu jets preparing for takeoff and the launch of cruise missiles.
This is a never-ending 9/11.
This is a never-ending 9/11.
They asked me to write about Donbas so I wrote about the rivers. Again. In maps: Why the entire peace deal hangs on this small strip of Ukraine
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In maps: Why the entire peace deal hangs on this small strip of Ukraine
Vladimir Putin has made it clear he wants the entire Donetsk region as a price for peace. Here’s why Ukraine refuses to give it up
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August 21, 2025 at 4:39 PM
They asked me to write about Donbas so I wrote about the rivers. Again. In maps: Why the entire peace deal hangs on this small strip of Ukraine
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08...
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Major development in Ukraine, which for more than three years has seen all sides largely put politics aside to focus on the war against Russia…
The protest in Kyiv against the law which destroys the anti corruption reform #Kyiv
July 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Major development in Ukraine, which for more than three years has seen all sides largely put politics aside to focus on the war against Russia…
Really privileged to have the great Irina Borogan and @andreisoldatov.bsky.social on Ukraine the latest today, talking about Our Dear Friends in Moscow www.youtube.com/watch?v=brWk...
Ukrainian hackers 'wipe databases' in major cyberattack | Ukraine: The Latest
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July 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Really privileged to have the great Irina Borogan and @andreisoldatov.bsky.social on Ukraine the latest today, talking about Our Dear Friends in Moscow www.youtube.com/watch?v=brWk...
Was in the chair for Ukraine: the Latest on Friday. Highly recommend Jade McGlynn’s insights on understanding Russia and the mad way so many people project their own obsessions on it youtu.be/E2FQ7h81ERc?...
Unmasked: The Russian spies who targeted Europe on Putin’s orders | Ukraine: The Latest
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July 20, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Was in the chair for Ukraine: the Latest on Friday. Highly recommend Jade McGlynn’s insights on understanding Russia and the mad way so many people project their own obsessions on it youtu.be/E2FQ7h81ERc?...
On Patriot missiles and zooming around the sky in het fighters. Unfortunately missed the bit when he sang the praises of the Mosquito. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlfd...
'If it flies it dies': Why America's ever-evolving Patriot missiles are so popular
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July 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
On Patriot missiles and zooming around the sky in het fighters. Unfortunately missed the bit when he sang the praises of the Mosquito. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlfd...
Very pleased to see the word "battleships" is still annoying people. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07...
Battle Lines: Trump wants a new armada. Can America still build one?
Tom Sharpe on Warships, Warnings, and What’s Really Going On
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July 8, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Very pleased to see the word "battleships" is still annoying people. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07...