He may avoid immediate constitutional and legal sanctions, but this threat against Iran should not be forgotten ...

On the morning of 28th February, Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, a nine-year-old pupil at the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in Minab, a city in southern Iran, left for school. Standing at the top of the stairs ...

The party is over: Is this the end for Labour and the Tories?

The ICC is a ‘dead man walking’. It doesn’t have to be The US is clear about its scorn for the International Criminal Court. By failing to defend it, our governments have become complicit ...

How do we reconcile truth and morality with the past? This was the grand challenge that the philosopher rose to meet ...

In the 1997 Australian comedy The Castle, an underprepared lawyer attempts to argue that the forced sale of his client’s house is in breach of the Constitution. The judge asks, “What section of the ...

Twelfth November was an unremarkable day in British politics. Another day when the topic of debate wasn’t one of voters’ main concerns—immigration or healthcare, say, or the budget, or the farmers—but ...

In the last year, the United States has transitioned from flawed liberal democracy to competitive authoritarianism. In this new regime, institutions as diverse as universities, law firms and news ...

We’re pleased to announce the shortlist for the Think Tank Awards 2020. Thank you to everyone who entered this year. The quality of each submission was extremely high. To register to watch the awards ...

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 ...

The first images of Neom that filtered out of Saudi Arabia suggested a generic science-fiction B-movie. Clouds of flying taxis lit by an artificial moon and random outcrops of swirling glass towers ...

Given how central journalists like to say their profession is to keeping the public informed, you might think that relentless retrenchment in the industry over the past decade would leave people ...