James Snell reports on the deployment of British Troops in Mali as a part of the UN’s mission to counter jihadist groups

Oliver Wiseman speaks to Jesse Singal about how bad ideas spread so easily and why the psychological cures to our social ills should be taken with a spoonful of salt

The President of Poland celebrates 230 years of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth’s Constitution of 3 May 1791

David Smith recalls his relationship with Bill and Hillary Clinton during his time working as a correspondent The White House

On the bicentenary of his death, Napoleon Bonaparte remains a curiously stubborn rampart of cultural history in France and beyond

Philip Larkin’s long association with Kingsley and Martin Amis resulted in the poet being misrepresented and misunderstood

A third of Americans now support the splitting up of the nation into like-minded countries independent of Washington

A trio of novels that are connected by their surprising manner of finding their way to us

It doesn’t take the minds of AC-12’s finest to see the parallels between our own political climate and the nation’s favourite police drama

It’s not for judges to say whether witnesses should have answered MPs’ questions