Only in Kharkiv, ever-changing city of industry and ideas and shifting identities, could the words REINFORCED CONCRETE become a rallying cry for fortitude, resilience and wild hope. Of course, ...

Vladimir Putin has repeatedly threatened to escalate the war in Ukraine by breaking the nuclear taboo. In June, as Russia installed tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, he raised the spectre of a ...

Donald Trump likes to talk up his links to Britain, his Hebridean mother and Scottish golf courses. But the appreciation has largely been one way: David Lammy’s description of the president elect as a ...

Once upon a time Birmingham was described as “the best-governed city in the world”. The description was made in 1890 by New York’s august Harper’s magazine: The 1890 article went on for 12 pages, and ...

When I was first asked to write this column, among the editor’s requests were that I serve as “a guide through the climate crisis”. To do so, I tend to look for solutions, be they nature-based or ...

Received with rapturous applause at a pro-devolution rally in 1992, these words, spoken by novelist William McIlvanney, came to define the cultural politics of contemporary Scotland. More than the ...

“The Biennale Arte 2026 is grounded in a deep belief in artists as the vital interpreters of the social and psychic condition,” reads the opening summary of the 61st international exhibition at the ...

This month our family of writers is in a whimsical mood: Vitali Vitaliev reflects on the very different purpose toilet paper once had in Soviet Ukraine, while Anglican priest Alice Goodman laments the ...

In late January, Nigel Farage stood in front of a packed Reform party fundraiser in Oswald’s, an exclusive private members’ club in Mayfair, central London. Farage encouraged the 100-strong crowd to ...

On 15th December last year, Piers Morgan stood in front of his London home and told the assembled cameras there that he had never hacked a phone nor told anyone else to. “Nobody has provided any ...

Thousands of people are expected to gather at Central Hall in Westminster today to hear how they and their loved ones came to contract lethal viruses in the biggest treatment disaster in NHS history.

Last week, as far-right thugs targeted Muslims primarily, the former Conservative immigration minister Robert Jenrick told Sky News that saying "Allahu Akbar"—“God is greater”— in public should be an ...