There was once a ruler who was displeased with a handful of legislators and so he sought to arrest them for treason. But the attempt failed and became instead a symbolic moment, showing the limits of ...

It didn’t take much. In one corner, a charismatic, manipulative paedophile. In the other corner, two ancient and barnacled pillars of the British state. The House of Lords and the monarchy are still ...

There is no British cultural event that bears reasonable comparison to the annual Super Bowl halftime performance. No Glastonbury headline slot, Last Night of the Proms or Jools Holland Hootenanny can ...

If Keir Starmer had someone like Gordon Brown or Boris Johnson as chancellor or foreign secretary, I suspect a Labour leadership election would now be underway. But he doesn’t, and the absence of an ...

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” Antonio Gramsci’s words, written in prison near Bari almost 100 years ago, ring out to us now. The ...

For years, debates about Iran have revolved around a single question: Will the regime fall? Amid intensifying protest and economic pressure, this question has regained urgency. History, however, ...

When Canada’s prime minister Mark Carney declared at Davos last week that “the old order is not coming back,” the global reaction varied sharply. In Europe, as the Economist noted in a piece aptly ...

Unless you have a mind open to paradox, Jesus was a sissy. It’s taken a lot of effort over the years to claim him as a man’s man. Jesus, in the gospels, is not what we, or for that matter, the ancient ...

Education, on some measures the UK’s biggest industry after finance, is being corroded by the creeping infiltration of global finance at every level. The primary aim of such companies is usually to ...

Having previously helped to develop a national cancer strategy, like many, I am eagerly awaiting the new, upcoming National Cancer Plan. Here are five key areas I believe the government should ...

The town of Ilulissat, with its brightly coloured wooden houses, sits on the banks of a spectacular ice fjord at the mouth of the Jakobshavn Glacier on the west coast of Greenland. With a population ...

“Less Holocaust, more Anne Frank,” was the advice Michael Grunwald received from the CEO of a publishing house who opted not to bid for his latest book, We Are Eating the Earth. Grunwald took notice.