Michael Binyon
Michael Binyon is an English journalist and currently a Leader Writer for The Times. He was a winner of two British journalism prizes in 1979 and 1980 for his reporting from Russia and awarded an OBE in 2000 for international journalism
Articles by Michael Binyon
Book review: The Dead Hand by David Hoffman
Michael Binyon revisits Cold War brinksmanship
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Welcome back Uncle Joe
Russia’s ‘efficient manager’ is being written back into official history, reports Michael Binyon
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Beyond Terror and Martyrdom: The Future of the Middle East by Gilles Kepel
Michael Binyon is impressed by Gilles Kepel's analysis of Jihad
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Russia: A Journey to the Heart of a Land and its People by Jonathan Dimbleby
Michael Binyon tours Russia with Jonathan Dimbleby
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Russian roulette
After the Russian election it may be all change at the top. But, asks Michael Binyon, who is the real winner?
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One Soldier’s War in Chechnya by Arkady Babchenko
Michael Binyon reviews an horrific memoir from the Chechen wars
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The Many Faces of God: Science’s 400-Year Quest for Images of the Divine by Jeremy Campbell
Michael Binyon seeks the face of God
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Ghost Hunters by Deborah Blum
Michael Binyon visits the Victorian spritualists with Deborah Blum
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Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties by Michael Lesy
Michael Binyon is not blown away by the Windy City
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Napoleon in Egypt by Paul Strathern
In 1789 Napoleon set off to conquer the East. We're still living with the fallout, says Michael Binyon
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The red death
Michael Binyon on the bloodiest and most costly war ever fought.
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Tories in trouble
Michael Binyon reviews the crisis in conservativism
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The Sober President
Michael Binyon on a biography of Russia's strong man
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Springtime for India
Michael Binyon weighs up the votes
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Back to the USSR?
In the wake of Russia's recent, widely criticised elections, Michael Binyon asks whether Putin is taking his country back to a Soviet past
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Fighting Shadows
Michael Binyon on Islam's long path to modernity
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The Last Revolution: 1688 and the Creation of the Modern World by Patrick Dillon
The Glorious Revolution was neither, says Michael Binyon
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