Within 15 months of its landslide 1997 election victory, New Labour had made ending rough sleeping and reducing homelessness a defining mission. Within 24 months that government had established a ...

The arguments for softening Brexit become more compelling the longer Britain remains outside the EU. Fish are left to rot because new red tape prevents them from getting to market, queues of lorries ...

Four-fifths of Brits value quiet time, according to a 2023 national noise report by Quiet Mark, a noise certification ...

The Reform leader only ever wanted to bring the same brand of transgressive populism to these shores. But after the midterms, ...

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American voters delivered a huge rebuke to President Trump and a politics of division, inflation and corruption ...

Liberal institutions won’t stop the extreme, illiberal right. But perhaps they’ll be saved by the new politics that is taking ...

After nearly 25 years I am home in northern California, toggling between tenses, trying to work out how to be here now ...

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

The offending book was an edition of Mao Zedong’s speeches collected and published by the eminent sinologist, the late Stuart ...

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 ...