As the party’s victory in Saxony-Anhalt shows, blocking the far right from coalition government is not the same as defeating ...

Particularly since Iceland is already in the EU’s single market and Schengen, so its fish—and its people—can circulate freely ...

Is it fair to criticise a nonfiction book for what it doesn’t include? Most would argue that it isn’t unless the omissions materially alter the subject being tackled. And this is where Lissa Evans’s ...

Despite the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change, sceptics are still making their voices heard—helped by ...

T he prime minister’s issue, so far in his short time in office, has been the cost of living. He has, among other measures, ...

The intimidation inflicted by Israeli settlers on villages like Umm al-Khair makes clear why Palestinians believe ...

At times, I have wished I knew less about the suffering to wildlife. But despair is something I can’t afford—not least ...

Labour likes to portray the sale of political access as a Tory problem. Keir Starmer’s comfort zone is railing against “Tory sleaze” and crony Covid contracts. But Labour is not immune. This week’s ...

Once-solid bipartisan US support for the Jewish state is no more. The consequences for Israel will be enormous ...

“Labour will end the chaos of sleaze.” So declared the manifesto on which Keir Starmer won a landslide election last July. After years of Conservative scandal, the new prime minister promised a raft ...

The United Kingdom does constitutional reform in two ways: gradually, and then suddenly. Years, indeed decades, can pass with quiet piecemeal changes to how the UK is governed: life peerages here, a ...