George Bush

Sushi, Pacific lobster … cheeseburgers: Japanese food fit for a president

Joe Biden’s hosts have treated him to Tokyo’s finest cuisine, but entertaining US presidents hasn’t always gone to plan

Justin McCurry in Tokyo

23, May, 2022 @1:50 PM

The audience chuckled at George W Bush’s Iraq-Ukraine gaffe. I’m not laughing | Arwa Mahdawi

I don’t think it’s possible to overstate the depravity and horror of the former president’s 2003 invasion of Iraq

Arwa Mahdawi

21, May, 2022 @1:32 PM

George W Bush accidentally admits Iraq war was ‘unjustified and brutal’ in gaffe

Former president makes slip when speaking at his presidential library in Dallas on Wednesday

Julian Borger in Washington

19, May, 2022 @3:30 PM

Luke Heggie: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

The comedian and self-described ‘laggard’ shares what cracks him up online – including many long-forgotten morsels of Australian history

Luke Heggie

09, Mar, 2022 @4:30 PM

Rabiye Kurnaz Vs George W Bush review – Guantánamo drama played for laughs

The true story of a Turkish-German mother’s fight to release her son from the notorious US detention camp gets an oddly pitched telling from director Andreas Dresen

Peter Bradshaw

13, Feb, 2022 @4:19 PM

Colin Powell obituary

Former US secretary of state and highly decorated army officer who made the case for the 2003 invasion of Iraq

Harold Jackson

18, Oct, 2021 @5:17 PM

Sir John Chilcot obituary

Civil servant who chaired the Iraq war inquiry and gave a damning verdict on Tony Blair

David Hencke

05, Oct, 2021 @4:31 PM

Liz Cheney fires back at Trump and says she was wrong to oppose gay marriage

Congresswoman tweets response to bizarre insult before telling CBS how she plans to fight Trumpists in re-election battle

Martin Pengelly in New York

27, Sep, 2021 @11:23 AM

Lives lost, poverty, an arms race, rights destroyed … the continuing cost of 9/11

The US has now spent $8 trillion over 20 years in its response to the attacks. But the true price has been more than financial

Simon Tisdall

12, Sep, 2021 @6:30 AM

Twenty years on from 9/11, is US democracy working?

From 9/11 to the storming of the Capitol, a new book by Biden biographer Evan Osnos covers a tumultuous period of US history. He talks to David Smith about Trump, Afghanistan and the beginning of a new era

David Smith in Washington

11, Sep, 2021 @10:00 AM