Luke Harding

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

— Luke Harding

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

— Luke Harding

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

— Luke Harding

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

— 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

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

— Luke Harding

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

— Luke Harding

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

— Luke Harding

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

— Luke Harding

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

— 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…

— Luke Harding

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

— Luke Harding

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Luke Harding

“the easy bit – passing the material to sympathetic journalists – was proving tricky.”

— Luke Harding

I left Kurdistan in April 2003 with the peshmerga, following their excited advance as Saddam's forces crumbled. First Kirkuk, then Mosul -…

— Luke Harding

Notionally a left-wing movement, the Anti-Germans were born after the collapse of the Berlin wall. While most Germans rejoiced at the end…

— Luke Harding

“You need to look at the contracts for the hotel deals and land deals that Trump did. Check their values against the…

— Luke Harding

My four years in Russia end, then, in dramatic fashion: with a textbook Soviet-style expulsion. I am the first western staff correspondent…

— Luke Harding

“Barack Obama, in a 2007 stump speech for his nascent presidential campaign, had pledged, ‘No more illegal wiretapping of American citizens. No…

— Luke Harding

“Snowden evidently knew of WikiLeaks, a niche transparency website”

— Luke Harding

By August 2008, we had left Voikovskaya and moved into a wooden dacha in the artists' colony of Sokol in north-west Moscow.…

— Luke Harding

“His girlfriend of eight years, Lindsay Mills, joined him in June on Oahu, which means ‘the gathering place’. Mills grew up in…

— Luke Harding

“In late 2015 GCHQ was carrying out standard “collection” against Moscow targets. These were known Kremlin operatives already on the grid. Nothing…

— Luke Harding