A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics

Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country

Anti-Israel sentiments among Irish nationalists are irrational and opportunistic

Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom

Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation

A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech

The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out

The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under

Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience

It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose

The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future

David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation

First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence

Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself

Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”

Does Andy Burnham seriously think that he can fix social care?

Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name? 

Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital

We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology

Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries

A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness

Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile

Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken

This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it

Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships

Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty

If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes

Look after the woods, and they will continue to give

why traditional topiary is
making a comeback

A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette

how to acquire an
art collection quickly