The offending book was an edition of Mao Zedong’s speeches collected and published by the eminent sinologist, the late Stuart ...
Israel’s election results have so far been as fractured as expected, but so far there appears to be an opportunity to remove ...
Twenty years on from the Stern Review, which set out the economic case for climate action, the stakes have never been higher. The science is even more worrying than it was in 2006. Tipping points—such ...
Last summer I was invited to take part in two small private events attended by many US, European and Asian billionaires, some worth many tens of billions. The events were fun and stimulating, and many ...
In the weeks ahead of tomorrow’s vote, the prime minister’s leading Jewish rivals have been neck-and-neck with his bloc.
By Sunday, the headlines belonged to the burning town hall in Limoges, the masked mobs and the looted shops. Emmanuel Macron ...
Ten years after Brexit, even Eurosceptics have discovered Brussels’ value ...
Consider these three propositions. First, that a person should not be rendered stateless: every person is entitled to be a citizen of somewhere. Second, that Shamima Begum, a former British citizen, ...
It reminds me that Brazil is facing no ordinary election. I begin to fear that the fires will reach my house or be used as a weapon against us, we who are fighting to defend the planet’s largest ...
Zack Polanski apparently faces questions about how much council tax he has paid for the houseboat he sometimes lives on. Meanwhile, a veritable tsunami of money is flowing into the coffers of Reform ...
The chancellor Rachel Reeves is set to appoint a corruption commissioner to recover £2.6bn lost to fraudsters during the Covid-19 pandemic. There will be millions to retrieve from local ...