Snowden evidently knew of WikiLeaks, a niche transparency…

When I first began visiting West Germany in the early 1980s, I was startled by the contrast between Birmingham, where I went to school,…

— Luke Harding

My journalistic mission was straightforward: to await the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Nobody knew quite when this would be. But the diplomacy - the…

— Luke Harding

“The encounter demonstrated the difference between newspaper cultures on either side of the pond. In the US, three big newspapers enjoy a virtual monopoly.…

— Luke Harding

Taking your clothes off in front of strangers is something of a hobby in Germany, among both men and women, especially in the former…

— Luke Harding

Germany's hierarchical reverence for seniority may have something to do with the fact that everything here happens relatively late. Germans start school at six,…

— Luke Harding

There is a long dishonourable tradition of western intellectuals who have been duped by Moscow. The list includes Bernard Shaw, the Webbs, H. G.…

— Luke Harding

On 30 June 2010, the FSB broke into my office again. They unplugged the Internet, opened the window and left the phone off the…

— Luke Harding

“The US’s main clandestine objective in Mexico was to keep tabs on the country’s drug cartels. A”

— Luke Harding

“Snowden was horrified to discover that behind bars he would have no access to a computer.”

— Luke Harding

“Given Germany’s totalitarian backstory – the Nazis then communists – it was hardly surprising that Snowden’s revelations caused outrage. In fact, a newish noun…

— Luke Harding

Strict shopping laws mean that most German shops close on Saturday afternoons, reopening only on Monday when everybody is back at work.

— Luke Harding

“The oversight mechanism in the US may have been broken, but in Russia it didn’t exist.”

— Luke Harding

Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is…

— Luke Harding

“Comey had turned away from his upbringing and embraced various kinds of evangelism. He wrote his thesis on how the evangelist teacher Jerry Falwell…

— Luke Harding

“Snowden’s itinerary does, however, seem to bear the fingerprints of Julian Assange. Assange was often quick to criticise the US and other western nations…

— Luke Harding