The Nobel Peace Prize is always political because peace is a political business, writes International Editor Lindsey Hilsum.

President Donald Trump is not the only person to be disappointed by the choice of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

He thought he should have won , but I had hoped that another nominee, Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms (ERRs), would triumph.

The Nobel Committee, however, disagreed with us both, awarding their prize to Maria Corina Machado, the leader of Venezuela’s opposition, “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”

As an objective journalist, I am not meant to have a dog in the fight, but my own experience led me to sup

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