After three troubled months in office, Labour’s problem has become obvious: it lacks an overarching purpose, as we have said ...

She’s just the latest official to fall foul of a broken system.

A prolonged conflict could cause recessions in the West, decide the US election and strengthen Putin’s hand in Ukraine.

Austria still gets most of its gas from Russia – accounting for 83 per cent of Austrian gas imports. That gas travels through ...

And here is the problem for Kamala Harris: when people feel poor it tends to favour the outsider in elections. And though ...

Rishi Sunak – still the official leader of the opposition until 2 November – was spoilt for choice. And he fluffed it.

There is something deliciously uncinematic about Our Evenings, the seventh novel by Alan Hollinghurst. I find more and more ...

The right still leads the policy discourse in the UK today. Its nostrums are the common currency not only of the Conservative Party, but also the Labour government. That this is not obvious is a ...

While Rooney rejected the Church’s teachings as a teenager, she recently told the Irish Times that “it would be dishonest of ...

The election is likely to come down to the wire in seven states: Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, ...

By naming McSweeney chief of staff, Starmer has abolished No 10’s dual power structure and given his administration a more explicitly political stamp. One criticism long made of Gray was that, as a ...

This is Lebanon’s modern history: bloody and conflicted. Present events are unfortunately of a piece. Lebanon’s ...