As Line of Duty now seems mired in the complexity of its own backstory, Alexander Larman asks if on-screen plots have become too complicated for us to enjoy

How does Starmer compare to Thatcher, Blair and Cameron?

The response to the political plight of Navalny has demonstrated that many civil rights organisations are neither principled nor brave

The words Kipling chose should not be cancelled even if Frank Sinatra had a bit too much fun with them

Good Friday is both a demonstration of, and the only answer to, what has gone wrong with the world

Will unionists or nationalists succeed in beating the Scottish system?

The blocking of the Suez canal shows us how easy it is to disrupt global trade

Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about archival research and the importance of source material

The increasingly partisan ways of the New York Times is setting an agenda that UK media outlets like the BBC appear unable to resist

Recent developments in Yemen’s civil war show that the Iranian-backed Houthis are clearly considered the winning side