Britain has long underestimated Eastern Europe as a source of strategic knowledge, treating it primarily as a region that ...

What does the World Cup mean to you? This year’s tournament has been highly political so far: as it began, one of the host nations was at war with one of the competitors and referees and staff have ...

The second Trump presidency has proved beyond doubt that cowardice is contagious. A blustering, mentally unstable bully has cowed powerful law firms, giant media companies, venerated universities and ...

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History tells us when new prime ministers go early they usually win. But it takes courage, especially when you already have a big majority ...

In 1996 and 1997, the reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov played a series of games against Deep Blue, an IBM supercomputer optimised to compete against humans in tournament conditions.

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Last Monday, BBC 2 broadcast How to Break into the Elite, a documentary hosted by journalist Amol Rajan that follows five young people in the early stages of their career. Two working-class students, ...

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Around two hundred years ago, in May 1816, a small group of English travellers checked into the Hotel d’Angleterre, a large three-storey stone building facing the Alps on the north side of Lake Geneva ...

As the third anniversary of the invasion approaches, Ukraine’s fate remains uncertain. The death toll mounts; war weariness and discontent are spreading in both Russia and Ukraine. Meanwhile, Russia’s ...