Baloch separatists have long been seeking independence from Pakistan. Now, the exiled leaders of the movement are courting ...

China’s president, Xi Jinping, likes to assert that the world is undergoing “changes unseen in one hundred years”. He borrowed the phrase from a Chinese political scientist named Yuan Peng, who first ...

Many members of the Israeli establishment vehemently oppose what is happening in the West Bank. You wouldn’t know it from the ...

As the party’s victory in Saxony-Anhalt shows, blocking the far right from coalition government is not the same as defeating ...

Is it fair to criticise a nonfiction book for what it doesn’t include? Most would argue that it isn’t unless the omissions materially alter the subject being tackled. And this is where Lissa Evans’s ...

Particularly since Iceland is already in the EU’s single market and Schengen, so its fish—and its people—can circulate freely ...

Despite the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change, sceptics are still making their voices heard—helped by ...

The intimidation inflicted by Israeli settlers on villages like Umm al-Khair makes clear why Palestinians believe ...

Labour likes to portray the sale of political access as a Tory problem. Keir Starmer’s comfort zone is railing against “Tory sleaze” and crony Covid contracts. But Labour is not immune. This week’s ...

Carlo Rovelli is a romantic. He’d be the first to admit it. Actually, scratch that: he’d be the second. “My girlfriend always says, ‘In a couple, at least one of the two should be romantic,’” the ...

One day Wile E Coyote decides to sue Acme, the manufacturer of the various devices that he has used in his failed attempts to catch the Road Runner. The chosen attorney is what can be called a ...

“Labour will end the chaos of sleaze.” So declared the manifesto on which Keir Starmer won a landslide election last July. After years of Conservative scandal, the new prime minister promised a raft ...