Israel’s election results have so far been as fractured as expected, but so far there appears to be an opportunity to remove ...

Three of the senior journalists from the News of the World who were convicted of phone hacking and sacked by the paper were given “huge sums of money” by the Murdoch company after threatening to ...

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 ...

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 ...

The gentle air of spring carries the sweet first call of the cuckoo. It is a sound that has captivated cultures for centuries, signalling the end of the dark days of winter. Yet the innocent birdsong ...

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 ...

It is a rainy May evening and 13 Israelis have come to a community centre in north London to hear from candidates running in the primaries of a new political party, the Democrats. The outfit is a ...

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: ...

I knew this was going to be a difficult semiquincentennial—a word as hard to say as the past few years have been to live through. There hasn’t been a lot to celebrate lately, so this Fourth of July I ...