Two days before the missiles started raining down on Baghdad in March 2003, Josh Richards packed a mixture of petrol and washing-up liquid into his rucksack and headed off to RAF Fairford in ...

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 ...

In the weeks ahead of tomorrow’s vote, the prime minister’s leading Jewish rivals have been neck-and-neck with his bloc.

Historians will debate for ever and a day why the second Donald Trump government was so much more extreme than his first. So extreme that Trump’s second term, if unchecked, could launch a revolution ...

By Sunday, the headlines belonged to the burning town hall in Limoges, the masked mobs and the looted shops. Emmanuel Macron ...

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 ...

The central character of Alan Hollinghurst’s most recent book, The Sparsholt Affair, is first seen lifting weights. The year is 1940, and weightlifting is seen as something fantastical and alluring: ...

Ten years after Brexit, even Eurosceptics have discovered Brussels’ value ...